[WhyNotHugo]

Competition can be good, for example, if we had new clients for existing federated IM protocols.

But Matrix brings fragmentation more than anything else: a brand new protocol that's slowly re-inventing what we already had. Matrix clients don't really compete with existing ones for open (or closed) protocols, they exist in an entirely new sphere.

I don't think this is a net positive; the general ecosystem has finite manpower, the more we fragment it, the less each protocol gets. In the end, we have a new federated IM protocol which doesn't bring many new things to the table, but we still don't have any reliably easy-to-use clients.

[tcfhgj]

> But Matrix brings fragmentation more than anything else: a brand new protocol that's slowly re-inventing what we already had.

We certainly didn't have decentralized rooms before