Discord would have made a better name for a decentralized network and Matrix would have been better for a private company.
Discord would have made a better name for a decentralized network and Matrix would have been better for a private company.
For all practical purposes Matrix is run by a private for profit and venture-capital funded company called Element / New Vector.
I found a related thread to this on Hacker News. It was interesting to read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365968
It has improved a bit since then (2019), but mainly because of the detoriating funding situation forcing Element to push the Matrix foundation to try and survive on their own.
Wow that guy sounds like an asshole. No wonder they banned him.
"Element" was originally called "Riot," which was an even better name than "Discord." But, then, governments started adopting Matrix and someone realized "Riot" wasn't corporate-friendly ¯\(ツ)/¯
mmmm, my favorite symbiote
governments use matrix for communication?
Yup. It's used by the German Bundeswehr, and by France's DINUM.
Here's a Wired article from a few years ago about its adoption.