Oh, wow! The German IT Planning Council decided yesterday to consolidate a bunch of disparate communication tools into a unified system based on Matrix and MLS.
Here's the record of their decision and the other options they considered: https://gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungsrat/fit-ab/zapuk/-/blob/main/Zielarchitektur/Architekturentscheidungen/ADR-0011-Kommunikationsschicht.md
I seem to recall people complaining that Matrix had serious problems with encryption key management (i.e. people were constantly getting “unable to decrypt” errors) and the only full-featured client was a commercial product that people were reluctant to trust. Have these concerns been resolved, or does the Council consider them irrelevant, or what?
@argv_minus_one @robin I think the idea is that MLS fixes the crypto (and interop) issues. But afaik Matrix doesn't implement it yet, so this is a 'for the future' thing I suspect.
