at its core Matrix can be thought of as an eventually consistent global JSON database with an HTTP API and pubsub semantics - whilst XMPP can be thought of as a message passing protocol.not that XMPP isn't cursed, but I do think the idea of an eventually consistent global JSON database is very cursed
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very cursed sentence from matrix.org: