You are probably using chat applications like Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and another chat app. These are all great to have but in using them you are making a trade-off; you are trading security and privacy for a service that easy to use.

Matrix is an open standard for communication messages. It is not a server so much as a standard way for clients and servers to talk with each other. The clients and server are open sources. With Matrix, you are not giving your data away to a company that is going to profile you and target advertising at you. This provides a degree of transparency you can look at the code, and you can be confident that it is behaving itself.

Many developer love Matrix because it let them build on it like Lego bricks and write their clients and servers bots or anything else you can self-host your Matrix server and that means you can create a private community where it knows that your communications are not being intercepted by anybody else. Matrix also has the option for end-to-end encryption, so you know that your messages are private.

Let’s take a look at a Matrix client known as  Element (Riot and Vector) and it is pretty much the reference messaging client.

What is Element?

Element (riot and vector) is a messaging platform that is very similar to Discord. It is a part of the Matrix ecosystem. It is a free and open-source software instant messaging. Allows you to communicate with other people it is according to their website

element

Features

  1. Have a secure chat app for teams, friends, and organizations
  2. Secure messaging app
  3. Conversations controller
  4. Safe from data-mining and ads
  5. End-to-end encryption
  6. Gives privacy for users
  7. Revolutionize the workplace
  8. Decentralization Design
  9. Helps to switch to a virtual conference
  10. Open-source
  11. Open collaboration with developers
  12. Element protects against accidental leaks
  13. protect you from eavesdroppers and third-party interference
  14. open source
  15. For Web, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows & Linux
  16. Offers the ability to do standard text chat, throw images
  17. Allows you to do voice chat
  18. Support  videos call
  19. Universal chat app
  20. Over 25 languages

License

Apache License 2.0

Supported platforms

The program is available for Web, Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's free to download and use.



Element | Secure Collaboration and Messaging
Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.
Secure Collaboration and Messaging

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