Really interesting. I do believe that this is the way to go. We already have a lot of communication platforms and apps that unfortunally can't communicate among them. I hope this should be the kickstart for a change in how communication apps are built, because communication doesn't means being able to communicate only with people who use the same app i use.
That's pretty cool, but I wish they'd deal with all of their other problems first. I ran Rocket.Chat for over a year and I encountered more errors than any other program I've hosted. It culminated in one problem causing a database corruption, which was the final straw.
Slightly related, but Rocket Chat is one of the most important projects using the Meteor framework. How's this going in 2022? Is Meteor still relevant when compared to new players like AWS Amplify and Remix?
> announced it is building its new federation capabilities on the Matrix protocol to allow its users to communicate with users on other platforms.<p>This is only for federation apparently.
I just wish that Rocket.Chat were actually fully open source, instead of open core that hides features like SSO, read receipts, and canned responses in closed-source modules.
Offtopic: is there an on-prem alternative for Discord? Is there not a demand for SSO enabled, self hosted, open source communications app with persistent voice chat channels with pushtotalk?