Still a bit alpha, but looks promising. Several features seem to be waiting for atproto implementation.

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[–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

SDK is a library layer that hides the complexity of a thing inside an easier facade. It's exactly the right thing to do when the thing is a complicated one, but it also hints towards ... you know, the thing being complicated.

We haven't quite figured out whether a chat network needs to be as complicated as Matrix is under the hood. Could be that it does: federation, E2EE and the overall design of Matrix (it being a log propagator instead of a more traditional message passing system) increase the technical challenge by a lot, but then again, none of the three are essential (although undeniably useful in certain cases) for a chat network.

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