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> It partially nullifies the point of the room decentralization, though.

And that's the ONE thing giving Matrix bragging rights over any other chat protocol. Their whole crusade against XMPP in Matrix early days was based on this distinction and overstating the importance and relevance of it. So I guess we are left with an absurdly complex protocol and single-source implementation for… nothing then?



It looks like the policy servers are themselves federated, so it's not really as big a concession as you're making it out to be.


XMPP is still there and going strong :)




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