It is battle tested, standardized, widely used, have open source servers and apps, end-to-end encryption (OMEMO), self-hostable and are low on ressources and federated / decentralized.
I use it with family and friends. Conversations and blabber.im on android and Gajim on Linux. There’s also apps for windows and Apple.
Curious if anyone here use it and why, why not?
EDIT: Doh. In these Lemmy times I forgot federated. Added.
Considering the fact that there is a special field in user profiles for a Matrix handle, I imagine upstream would prefer something Matrix-y instead.
Of course I can’t speak for anyone involved. Especially if someone else is thinking of writing the code themselves.