It’s going to end up decided by whoever gets something good enough for streamers to use professionally first. Maybe XMPP, ive just seen it fail at adoption so many times and matrix seems to be what has the most momentum

I am 100% cool with a developer coup. The matrix devs are not serious people.

Yeah matrix needs a refactor or fork. No good drop ins this month.

Simplex already has PQC enabled and makes metadata analysis a nightmare from a protocol level without Tor. Needs more optimization and super peers to fix a group delivery bug but surprisingly stable for something so new.

https://simplex.chat/

Matrix seems closer to me. XMPP has been ignored for 20 years. Fluxer might be good in a few months. Simplex is secure and fairly stable now but not a great discord replacement.

It’s 2026. Let it go. It’s not XMPP.

https://github.com/matrix-org

It’s mostly rust but there’s typescript, js and go too.

https://matrix.org/support/

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