Pinecones and Dendrites - P2P Matrix Progress

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Describes development work to make Matrix fully distributed by compiling the Dendrite Go homeserver into clients and connecting them over P2P overlays. Covers using and comparing overlay technologies (libp2p, Yggdrasil) and introduces Pinecone, a new overlay supporting source routing, virtual ring routing and greedy routing, plus demos of Dendrite improvements, decentralised accounts, privacy-preserving relay nodes and plans for a hybrid P2P/client-server Matrix.

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