[zaik]

I don't think that promoting existing internet standards over Matrix will hurt open communications.

Instead I think constantly reinventing the same thing with slightly different, incompatible primitives is hurting the ecosystem a lot more.

Bridges also won't solve this. The matrix.org XMPP implementation (besides not being mentioned anywhere, not even in the Matrix FAQ about XMPP) is almost unusable and I suspect it will never allow for encrypted communications or A/V calls.