{"id":154038,"date":"2022-12-31T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/inside-matrix-the-protocol-that-might-finally-make-messaging-apps-interoperable"},"modified":"2022-12-31T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T22:24:03","slug":"inside-matrix-the-protocol-that-might-finally-make-messaging-apps-interoperable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/inside-matrix-the-protocol-that-might-finally-make-messaging-apps-interoperable","title":{"rendered":"Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skC5TYRAgKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After years of walled gardens, cross-pollination could be in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Interoperability and decentralization.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year, driven in large part by mounting regulation, societal and industrial pressure and the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/11\/17\/is-web3-really-the-new-phase-of-the-internet\/\">hype trains that are crypto and web3<\/a>. That rising tide is lifting other boats, such as an open standards-based communication protocol called <a href=\"https:\/\/matrix.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matrix<\/a> \u2014 which is playing a part in bringing interoperability to another proprietary part of our digital lives: messaging.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people on the Matrix network <a href=\"https:\/\/matrix.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/25\/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doubled in size this year<\/a>, according to Matthew Hodgson, one of Matrix\u2019s co-creators \u2014 a notable, if modest, boost to 80.3 million users (that number may be higher; not all Matrix deployments \u201cphone home\u201d stats to Matrix.org).<\/p>\n<p>While the bulk of all this activity has been in enterprise communications, it looks like mainstream consumer platforms might now also be taking notice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/inside-matrix-the-protocol-that-might-finally-make-messaging-apps-interoperable\">Continue reading \u201cInside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of walled gardens, cross-pollination could be in sight. Interoperability and decentralization. Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year, driven in large part by mounting regulation, societal and industrial pressure and the hype trains that are crypto and web3. That rising tide is lifting other boats, such as an open [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}