@ksynwa I think it’s just because so much of the open source community really went for it after one of the biggest IRC chats fell apart. Matrix was there at the right time to pick up the pieces AND the audience that gravitated towards it were exactly the techy types that most commonly latch on to Federated stuff in the first place.

@ch0ccyra1n @KelsonV The interoperability is really cool! I’m doing the same thing, it’s nice to be able to dip my toes into Lemmy without an account yet!

@ksynwa I think Matrix has more users (~64 million) than the Fediverse (~13 million).