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by cjwebb 2283 days ago
Whilst its great that people are iterating on existing products out there, I feel slightly sad that we just have a load of "alternatives" that don't play nicely with each other.

It would be much nicer if I could use FaceTime, whilst speaking to someone on Hangouts, plus someone else on Jitsi. Apart from discovery, what is stopping that? I'm assuming they all use basically the same underlying codecs, of course!

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Matrix is trying to close that gap, so definitely something to take notice of.
This is the first I've heard of it, so thanks for the tip. I'll be reading all of https://matrix.org tonight!