Re-categorize Matrix and Element to just "Decentralized"

[scooke]

With the surging interest in federated apps like Mastodon and Peertube and even Pixelfed, I was seeing what else Cloudron has and noticed that, under the "Federated" tab in the Apps store, Matrix and Element were shown there. I thought, "huh, they are federated too now?", and checked online and found this: Matrix is a decentralised network which means, much like the web, there is no central point of control or authority. A company can simply host its own server and participate in the Matrix network.

I appreciate that it is federated in the broad sense of the term, but not in the federated=ActivityPub sense. My Element chat app is not going to be able to connect to my Pixelfed instance, nor to my writefreely instance (selfhosted on my server running Yunohost). So, just a suggestion to make a new category, Decentralized (as long as there are apps that are touted as being decentralized, which might then include something like NC with the right plugins.)

Not a biggie, just a suggestion.

[girish]

We can add a new Decentralized section maybe. But matrix does call it federation - https://federationtester.matrix.org/

[jdaviescoates]

@girish yeah, similarly there are other non ActivityPub federated apps too like Diaspora etc.