Matrix Network Hits 60 Million Users, Improving the Demand for Decentralized Communication

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 7:51:00 Dan

Matrix is an open-source standard for decentralized communication. It is constantly evolving to the requirements of modern solutions keeping in mind the privacy of users.

You will find Matrix clients as a replacement for Slack, Microsoft Teams, and several other popular communication platforms.

And, to re-affirm the adoption of decentralized communication, Matrix has announced that it has surpassed sixty-million users worldwide.

Matthew Hodgson (Co-Founder and CEO of Matrix) has clarified it in their official Element group sharing a screenshot of it:

the >60M users (actual figure is 64M) is based on the phone-home reporting to matrix.org that synapse optionally does.

total federated known users

More at https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/

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I'm a long-time user and enthusiast of open source software and espouse the philosophy that software code should be open (readable). So that everyone can see what happens behind the scenes while we use our electronic devices every day.