How to install and run bots for the Matrix network
Matrix is a fun and exciting federated protocol that we’re using more and more at /tmp/lab. If you want to join the discussion, head to our riot channel and check it out! Riot is a well-known web GUI for the Matrix protocol which could be defined as “a chat interface between IRC and Slack”. It’s cooler than IRC to some extend – backlogging is easier- and it is free software, not like Slack Still, IRC, Slack and Riot have in common a capacity to use bots, and that’s what we’ll be drilling today: Matrix bots. Onward, my mechanical steed! Note: Our privacy-aware assistance might interject here with some well founded critics of the Matrix ecosystem, which is not free enough as of now. Find here a list of concerns as a github issue tracker for more information. Anyway, which bot to choose? There are many available bots for matrix and even a page dedicated to them on the project’s website. We chose maubot . The maubot homepage on github Why maubot? Well, first, it’s python, which we like. Also, it’s actually well coded: Tulir Asokan -the author- did an impressiv