Have you used Matrix? Do you like it? Trick question, of course you don’t. It seems like nobody likes Matrix, at least not once they’re familiar with its… quirks. It’s frustratingly overengineered, difficult to work with, full of bugs, and its insistence on E2EE makes it hard for nontechnical users to comprehend. For the past several months, I’ve been working on a better solution for federated chat. Chatterbox is a new protocol that, I hope, will make federated chatrooms actually ni...
