On: Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard...

[Arathorn]

For what it’s worth, Matrix is trying to be the protocol that Jack describes here - complete with relative reputation systems (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/msc2313/propos...) and an open standard (https://matrix.org/docs/spec) and even an open governance process and foundation (https://matrix.org/foundation) - and with work progressing towards fully decentralised p2p matrix.

Rather than building a new initiative from the ground up, we hope there’s some opportunity to join forces on this.

[dang → Arathorn]

Can you please not post duplicate comments to HN? It lowers the signal/noise ratio of the site and creates a headache when we merge threads, like we did in this case.

If two threads are so much the same that you want to post the same comment to both, that's a strong indication that they should be merged. Sending us a heads up at hn@ycombinator.com is a forcing function to make that happen.

(Parent is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21763925. We merged the replies from here to there.)