“It reminds me of the feeling when Netscape first added JavaScript to the web.” So says Matthew Hodgson, the creator of the Matrix network and now building a web-based metaverse client called Third Room.
Since that time, https://matrix.org/ has continued to grow — it now has 72 million users on the Matrix network (total users, not active) and about 100,000 servers.
In today’s web, people use blogs and social media apps like Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to create content.
“The reason we built Matrix was to fight the walled gardens for instant messaging and VoIP and provide an open communication for the web.