Recognizing Matrix as an official channel

[Dave Hayes]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:20:45 +0700
Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> What is Matrix's level of support for FreeBSD?
> Is there native FreeBSD server?

Yes. See net-im/py-matrix-synapse, which is well supported.  

> Is there native FreeBSD client?

Matrix is really a protocol, not an application. Thus this question is hard
to answer. You can see

  https://matrix.org/

for details, but the best current client for this protocol is Element.
Element runs in the popular browsers, has an Android and iOS client,
and can likely be made into a stand alone application assuming 
devel/electron* works on FreeBSD. However, all you need is www/chromium or
www/firefox to actually run a client. So technically, FreeBSD is also well
supported but a native client is through electron. 

It's worth noting that Matrix is federated. Thus it is quite possible for
FreeBSD to run it's own matrix server if it decided to. 
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