@Moon @nik what was impressive about matrix was that they delivered a product that had

- an OK server
- an OK web and mobile client
- voip calls
- all the basic features that people expect from a messenger since 2005, like images and emojis.

but as the comment says, modeling this as a distributed graph database from which, as if by chance, falls out a chat protocol, wasn't really worth it. There is very little value in the way that matrix backend actually moves messages from A to B, but it's causing a huge amount of issues.