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 The irony of Matrix, XMPP, and Session is the public group chats.

Matrix has encrypted group chats, while as with XMPP and Session, the large group chats are just plaintext.  This is ironic because Matrix is the most used for legal technology corporations' public help forums where nothing discussed is a secret.  So it lags down anonymous Tor users who need help with some kind of already broken software to exchange public keys with thousands of people. 

On the other hand, Session is considered a darkweb tool, but the public group chats over 100 people are just regular plain text websites that AI bots can easily scrape.  This is what our new Session bot seeks to solve for uncensored free speech.  DM our new bot, Session ID: Simple