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by miloignis 2623 days ago
That's not really true, there are significant architectural differences that made sense as a new protocol. (The biggest being that "replicated conversation database for realtime conversations" instead of a point-to-point message sending/routing thing) - Arathorn explained it well in a comment last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19419832

and the animation at the bottom of the matrix.org homepage was quite helpful for me