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Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix!

2022-05-30 -- General -- Matthew Hodgson
Rocket.Chat [?] Matrix

Hi folks,

We just wanted to take a moment to welcome Rocket.Chat to Matrix,
given the recent announcement that they are switching to using Matrix
for standards-based interoperable federation! This is incredible
news: Rocket.Chat is one of the leading open source collaboration
platforms with over 12 million users, and they will all shortly have
the option to natively interoperate with the wider Matrix network:
the feature has already landed (in alpha) in Rocket.Chat 4.7.0!

We'd like to thank the whole Rocket.Chat team for putting their faith
in Matrix and joining the network: the whole idea of Matrix is that
by banding together, different independent organisations can build an
open decentralised network which is far stronger and more vibrant
than any closed communication platform. The more organisations that
join Matrix, the more useful and valuable the network becomes for
everyone, and the more momentum there is to further refine and
improve the protocol. Our intention is that Matrix will grow into a
massive open ecosystem and industry, akin to the open Web itself... and
that every organisation participating, be that Rocket.Chat, Element,
Gitter, Beeper, Famedly or anyone else will benefit from being part
of it. We are stronger together!

Rocket.Chat's implementation follows the "How do you make an existing
chat system talk Matrix?" approach we published based on our
experiences of linking Gitter into Matrix. Looking at the initial
pull request, the implementation lets Rocket.Chat act as a Matrix
Application Service, effectively acting as a bridge to talk to an
appropriate Matrix homeserver. From chatting with the team, it sounds
like next steps will involve adding in encryption via our upcoming
matrix-sdk-crypto node bindings - and then looking at ways to
transparently embed a homeserver like Dendrite, sharing data as much
as possible between RC and Matrix, so Rocket.Chat deployments can
transparently sprout Matrix interoperability without having to run a
separate homeserver. Super exciting!

You can see a quick preview of a Rocket.Chat user chatting away with
an Element user on matrix.org via Matrix here:



So, exciting times ahead - needless to say we'll be doing everything
we can to support Rocket.Chat and ensure their Matrix integration is
a success. And at this rate, they might be distinctly ahead of the
curve if they start shipping Dendrite! Meanwhile, we have to wonder
who will be next? Nextcloud? Mattermost? Place your bets... ;)

--Matthew

 Update

Aaron from Rocket.Chat just published an excellent guide & video tour
for how to actually set up your Rocket.Chat instance with Dendrite to
get talking Matrix!

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