I for one welcome our Matrix overlords, where all our communication needs are done over HTTP json requests, and you can have interop servers into every other network through federated gateways.
Honestly, it is the future. Everything except Ring / Tox* should just pack up and start contributing to Matrix :p
* Because there is still use for anonymous fully peer to peer messaging, but the marginal utility IMO does not outweigh the incredible tradeoffs you have to make to implement it for normal people (ie, no history, the need to pass around account tokens between devices, slowish message propagation).
Honestly, it is the future. Everything except Ring / Tox* should just pack up and start contributing to Matrix :p
* Because there is still use for anonymous fully peer to peer messaging, but the marginal utility IMO does not outweigh the incredible tradeoffs you have to make to implement it for normal people (ie, no history, the need to pass around account tokens between devices, slowish message propagation).