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What are the odds, the Direct Messaging solution, could be inspired / replicate the Matrix protocol? I love how the system works, despite many shortcomings (mostly on the front-end), especially the bridges to other services functionality.

Is there a chance the direct messaging task could enjoy some cooperation with the Matrix protocol / Element people?

I have little-to-no knowledge about the politics, goals & inner-working of both groups.

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It's possible, and we've talked about it, but it would take a good amount of work (as would any 'correct' solution), so we have punted on properly solving DMs for a bit. I know Matthew has been very interested in working with us to figure something out here

On the Matrix side, we’d definitely like to help make this happen. Decentralised e2ee is Hard, and after a lot of iteration we’ve got Matrix into a good place these days (plus there’s a new wave of React Native Matrix dev happening atm). Plus we’re not shy about doing stuff like switching IDs on Matrix to DIDs, or even supporting ATProto as a federation mechanism and client/server API if that’s what it takes. https://bsky.app/profile/patak.dev/post/3lbbxbekjw22q gives more context.

What would suck is if bluesky ended up with an entirely incompatible (but functionally identical) thing, so that all the existing Matrix clients, bridges, servers etc couldn’t be leveraged.

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