[jamesdepp]

I hope that Matrix will be for IM what email has become. The ability to control your own data and use a client of your choice is incredibly valuable. Surely, there are costs and labor associated with running a Matrix homeserver for your organization, but for organizations that can support it, this is truly becoming a viable alternative to Slack.

[jacooper]

If they can get the EU to standardize on Matrix for chat federation in the digital markets act, it will happen.

[derbOac]

A lot of protocols took off in part because of university adoption and it took off from there. It wasn't the only thing but it certainly planted seeds in impressionable minds.

If universities and governmental orgs start reliably running their own Matrix servers like they did with email before contracting that out I think it will happen.

[jtmlis]

How is that going ?

[Arathorn]

It’s going pretty well actually - see https://matrix.org/blog/2023/03/15/the-dma-stakeholder-works.... Also lots of work like https://turt2live.github.io/ietf-mimi-linearized-matrix/draf... going on around it too.

[DANmode]

Related: http://matrix.org/blog/2022/02/03/digital-markets-act-and-in...