Recognizing Matrix as an official channel

[Charlie Li]

Dave Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:20:45 +0700
> Eugene Grosbein 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.  
> 
Synapse is the official and reference implementation of a Matrix
homeserver, but not the only one.
>> 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. 
> 
net-im/fractal is a GTK-based client written in Rust, hosted by the
GNOME project. Works well. There are a few Qt-based clients as well but
can't remember what they're called at the moment.
> 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. 
> 
This is what Mozilla does, which replaced their IRC network (moznet)
entirely earlier this year.

-- 
Charlie Li
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