I would hate to see Signal replace the elegant, carefully designed protocol they use with the bloated, carelessly designed, "IM-over-HTTP" mess that is Matrix.

Heh, Matrix is starting to remind me of the giant shitshow that is Lync/Skype for Business and now known as Microsoft Teams with a new skin. Lync is a scary scary thing.

They work quite differently under the hood: Microsoft Teams is thick client/thin server, Matrix is thin client/thick server.

Binary transport is already on the roadmap.

Huge for matrix, yes. For signal to jump on the matrix train, matrix first needs to get their act together with respect to encryption.

Try getting non-techsavy folk to set up multiple devices, the process is nowhere near viable right now

>Try getting non-techsavy folk to set up multiple devices, the process is nowhere near viable right now

The process of setting up e2e on a new device these days is basically "scan this QR code and push a button" though.

I'm not installing another messaging app until it's federated.

I've told everyone sending me signal invites that they can email or sms me.

It would be more appropriate for signal to open up to the xmpp fediverse

Why more appropriate?