Felix Urbasik on Nostr: The protocol is complex, but I think it needs to be in order to support all the ...
The protocol is complex, but I think it needs to be in order to support all the features of modern messaging. However, this makes creating a server implementation insanely difficult. Imagine writing a HTTP server and then compare it to writing a Matrix server.
Matrix is the best thing we have and it's kind of awesome, and I'm glad Element - as a company - decided to make an open source project for everyone instead of yet another "product". But yeah.
3/3
#HTTP #Matrix
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