Building massive virtual communities in Matrix
summary
Covers how the Matrix protocol and tools (Matrix, Element clients) have been extended to scale for very large virtual communities by adding Spaces (hierarchical grouping of rooms with decentralized ACLs), Widgets (embed arbitrary webapps like livestream/video dashboards), Threading (threaded conversations), and Decentralised Reputation (user-controlled content filtering). Also describes deploying these features for FOSDEM 2021 and recent large adopters like Mozilla and Gitter.
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