2015/Edinburgh/chat

Chat (IM, Matrix.org) was a session at IndieWebCamp Edinburgh 2015.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/chat

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Participants

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Notes

Matrix Can implement chat using the Matrix protocol.

• Open-source; JSON over HTTP
• All messages stored on your server
• Protocol to standardise how IMs are sent/received
• Specficiation: http://matrix.org/docs/spec/
• Bunch of client SDKs available on Github

What you can do:

• Run your own Home Server to add IM/VoIP to your site using the reference server implementation: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
  • Other implementations in early stages - Pallium (in Go: https://github.com/KoFish/pallium ) and jSynapse (in Java: https://github.com/swarmcom/jSynapse/ )
• Federate with the Matrix ecosystem (get bridged services like IRC for free)
• Matrix supports any old JSON; it's not just for IM. Add in support for blog posting? In the past, people have done stuff for drones (position data), animations (spline data), music sharing (MIDI as JSON), etc
• Write bridges to de-silo other services (bridges for XMPP/IRC/Slack/libpurple)

How to integrate matrix with existing indieweb messaging/posting protocols?

Micropub (JSON) -> Matrix? (ie. could Matrix support micropub vocabulary?)

Federation via webmention?