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by ijpsud 2217 days ago
> This will not work.

They seem to be doing fine:

~10.0M global visible accounts

~2.5M messages per day

~4.5M unbridged accounts

~500K unbridged messages per day

~2.1M rooms that Matrix.org participates in

~20,000 federated servers

~3000 msgs/s out, ~30 msgs/s in on Matrix.org

~400 projects building on Matrix

~70 companies building on Matrix

https://matrix.org/faq/

They're up to 20k visible servers from about 5.5k servers in September 2018, and if you look here: https://youtu.be/1TPICntbC5w?t=1692 you can see the growth curve looks pretty good.

> Also, universal standards are not necessarily a good thing. Decentralization with multiple competing tools and standards is good

Matrix explicitly doesn't try to be "the one true standard". That's the whole idea of their bridging model: https://youtu.be/1TPICntbC5w?t=296

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10M accounts with 2M rooms sounds odd, any explanation?
10M (nowadays 16.8M) is the total number of matrix IDs we can see from matrix.org based on phone-home stats from Synapse. 2M (nowadays 5.18M) is the total number of matrix rooms from Synapse.

The ratio is about what we'd expect - there's a mix of DMs, private rooms, and massive public rooms; the DMs will dominate, hence this ratio. Every conversation in Matrix happens in a "room" (even DMs), under the hood, which might be the point of confusion here.

OK, didn't know you call private conversation room
What seems odd about that?