<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Matrix is real time chat, like a modern version of IRC. Conversations take place in specific "rooms".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mastodon is decentralized twitter. You are broadcasting short messages to all of the people who follow your message stream.</div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, at 10:30 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>Maybe you know more about this stuff than I do.. I got confused somewhere along the way, and now I'm lost, but can you please explain the differences (if any) between Mastodon and Matrix?<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:28 PM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><u></u><br></div><div><div>I just use Element, and I also think that Matrix is a million times better than IRC. Nice to see all the competition though.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, at 10:21 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-gmail-m_-2093820208845529832qt"><div dir="ltr"><div>This was in my news feed this evening, a list of the "best" Matrix clients for those of you who like to follow the white rabbit... or was that a different Matrix?<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://itsfoss.com/best-matrix-clients/" target="_blank">https://itsfoss.com/best-matrix-clients/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div> kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>