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Every time I get a hankering to try out forking Ensichat or implementing a quick-n-dirty self-host-server-friendly Signal Protocol-based chat application, I stop myself because Matrix is doing it all, and much better than I can.

P2P Matrix homeserver on your phone or computer with multiple accounts will be the Syncthing of chat applications: slightly more scary and painful to setup the first time, then completely forgettable and pleasant to use long term - 500 chat services, 1 chat app, will finally be a solved problem again. Last time it was, we were all using Pidgin or Windows Phone hub!

Tour of the element roadmap from a couple of days ago https://youtu.be/qnHAAkY2Cx0

That links explains why there are private links in it. tldr; Those links will be replaced with public cards soonTM.

Sad to see 2fa is at the bottom of the still later" deck

This is because SSO lets you do it today (via keycloak or auth0 or whatever). 2FA here is effectively an optimisation for those not using SSO. Also, cross signing is effectively is a form of 2FA already.

Element public roadmap