The Challenge of Decentralised Communication

ETHBerlin04 May 24-26, 2024, CIC Innovation Campus Keynote: Matthew Hodgson - The Challenge of Decentralised Communication

Decentralised communication tools are at least 10x harder to build than their mainstream centralised equivalents, and in a world where Discord, Slack, Telegram and WhatsApp have billions of dollars of funding and have created incredibly polished products, it can be hard for decentralised alternatives to compete. However: centralisation lasts until the next Elon, whereas decentralisation can last forever.

In this talk, I'll explain the challenges we've hit in building Matrix to compete with the mainstream alternatives, how we're solving them, why it's taken so long, and why it's more important than ever to keep the ideal of decentralised communication alive.

ETHBerlin04 - https://ethberlin.org A Department of Decentralization event - https://dod.ngo