This is one of the primary benefits of a messaging client that uses Matrix [1], if one app becomes undesirable there are dozens of compatible apps! [2]
I highly recommend giving Element [3] a try - it's polished and easy for non technical people to use, end-to-end encrypted and OSS.
Matrix is a protocol - you’re probably thinking of https://element.io (formerly Riot.im)? If anything, Element is more workgroup than IM (but there are other Matrix clients which are more IM than workgroup).
I also wanted to come in here and promote matrix. You can use it internally, or you can federate it. It takes a lot of concepts from XMPP, and is essentially json over http with an "eventually consistent" synchronization between clients and servers.
https://matrix.org is an open standard defining a communication protocol. The goal is to have an open ecosystem where any app can talk to any other app. You can talk to Matrix either natively - or via a bridge. We already have written bridges to IRC, Slack, XMPP and libpurple - if you visit #matrix on freenode you are also talking in the #matrix:matrix.org (https://vector.im/beta/#/room/#matrix:matrix.org) room in Matrix (and vice versa).
You can even connect to Matrix via your IRC client via http://pto.im/
Matrix is decentralised, you can run your own server (clone our server or write your own) and servers will create federated networks on a need-to-know per-room basis (see http://matrix.org/#about).
Are there many here who use a Matrix client like Element? [1] Or one of the dozens of compatible chat apps? [2]
Why don't more people use it? I can't understand why people would jump from one closed source silo like WhatsApp to another closed source Silo like Telegram or Signal.
Element.io / Matrix.org | REMOTE (EU timezones preferred, though not required)| Full-time Matrix is an open standard for decentralized secure communications. Matrix’s mission is to make messaging as open as email.
For those who do not know us, data sovereignty and end-to-end encryption seem to be really potent differentiators especially for governments and civic institutions. The French government has a massive Matrix deployment under the name "Tchap", and the German military began rolling out a similar initiative called "BwMessenger" in November: https://esut.de/en/2020/11/meldungen/24138/matrix-messenger. On the opposite end of the spectrum you've got Mozilla, who replaced their IRC network with open, federated Matrix and saw greater far greater community engagement as a result.
Now is an excellent time to join the team as we try to make a genuine challenge to centralised, walled garden messaging technology.
However, whatever your background, feel free to contact me via https://app.element.io on @neilj:matrix.org I am always keen to chat with engineers of all disciplines about the project.
matrix (https://matrix.org/) is a more modern messaging protocol than XMPP; it revolves around HTTP and JSON because it's the most logical today the way XMPP is based on XML because it was the most logical at the time. Let's hope they can achieve something here !
Element.io / Matrix.org | REMOTE (EU timezones preferred, though not required)| Full-time
Matrix is an open standard for decentralized secure communications. Matrix’s mission is to make messaging as open as email.
For those who do not know us, data sovereignty and end-to-end encryption seem to be really potent differentiators especially for governments and civic institutions. The French government has a massive Matrix deployment under the name "Tchap", and the German military began rolling out a similar initiative called "BwMessenger" in November: https://esut.de/en/2020/11/meldungen/24138/matrix-messenger. On the opposite end of the spectrum you've got Mozilla, who replaced their IRC network with open, federated Matrix and saw greater far greater community engagement as a result.
Now is an excellent time to join the team as we try to make a genuine challenge to centralised, walled garden messaging technology.
However, whatever your background, feel free to contact me via https://app.element.io on @neilj:matrix.org I am always keen to chat with engineers of all disciplines about the project.
Element is a for profit company that creates one set of clients and a hosted service for the matrix protocol. To find alternatives, look at https://matrix.org/discover/
Like XMPP it supports federation, but Matrix is JSON instead of XML.
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