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Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications. The Matrix.org Foundation exists to act as a neutral custodian for Matrix and to nurture it as efficiently as possible as a single unfragmented standard.

📣 We're currently seeking individual and organizational members to fund our work: https://matrix.org/membership

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@famfo@frogs.lgbt avatar famfo , to random

lmao @matrix STILL has the "Matrix 2.0 is here" (https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/113391873836378234) post pinned to the profile even though "here" is STILL a very long stretch

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@famfo perhaps you missed https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/morg-now-running-mas/ and all the other progress.

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

We've recently seen serious spam attacks against Matrix, so we're introducing Policy Servers to recommend whether servers should accept or discard events before they get synced to clients. If your server participates in public rooms, see https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers/ to keep it safe.

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

Millions of records migrated to MAS on matrix.org, a PhD position, and plenty of releases!

That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/11/this-week-in-matrix-2025-04-11/

@blake@infosec.town avatar blake , to random

We're facing down a war of the chat apps, and unfortunately it looks like the closed-ecosystem RCS and developer-hostile PII-gathering centralized Signal and WhatsApp are winning. The open ecosystems can't win if we're all infighting.

I'm still curious what MIMI is coming up with. Last I checked it was pretty dominated by Matrix.

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@blake if it's any consolation, we haven't been able to invest much time in it recently. also, please consider that Matrix may not be the enemy here?

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

We're thrilled to announce that the migration of matrix.org to the Matrix Authentication Service (MAS) is complete and went according to plan!

Find all the details and videos of how it looks like on Element X and Fractal on our blog!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/morg-now-running-mas/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

The matrix.org server migration to Next Gen Auth happened successfully between 07:00 and 07:30 UTC - we'll give more details in a blog post shortly. Meanwhile, please let us know if you spot any auth/registration/login problems.

@mauro@mograph.social avatar mauro , to random

I don't know the tech specifics as to why it's happening but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to uninstall all the @matrix apps from my devices once again. This is not the first time this happened.

There's a wave of spammers that notify all the users in a room with some awful images, both of gruesome deaths and CP.

Happened twice today, in the @archlinux room and @thunderbird as well.

Why I can only see this shit happening on Matrix, I wonder? How does moderation work in there?

@element

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@mauro we're working on countermeasures; the reason it happens is the same reason email has spam: there's no central point to filter abusive content. @archlinux @thunderbird @element

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC.

More details about the impact for your on our blog.

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix-auth-service/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

A bot for expiring messages, plenty of releases in Element land, and a beta for Fractal!

That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/03/28/this-week-in-matrix-2025-03-28/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

We've just released v1.14 of the Matrix specification. This is largely a maintenance release, as we work to land more significant changes, such as Next Generation Authentication, in v1.15. Details in the blog: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/03/27/matrix-v1.14-release/

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We are proud to join likeminded organisations in endorsing the United Nations Open Source Principles, a set of guidelines to promote collaboration and adoption of open source around the globe. https://unite.un.org/news/fifteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

A Trust & Safety working group, a major change in Element Call, and updates to matrix-ansible-deploy. That and more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/03/21/this-week-in-matrix-2025-03-21/

@BjornW@mastodon.social avatar BjornW , to random

Had to leave @librewolf Matrix group due to it getting spammed & people participating in this group getting invite spam including myself.

Apparently there is no option to counter this in @element or in the @matrix specs? Maybe it could be a bit less annoying if the room was invite only?

Anyways, I'm not willing to deal with this abuse & my only option was to leave this room for now. Pretty sad & angry about this type of behaviour still happening.

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@BjornW @librewolf @element We've noticed that spam wave and are sorry to see it. Where accounts are registered on Matrix.org, we've been taking action.

Other steps you can take: use the report button in your client to alert the server admin, or ping room admins and mods.

We also encourage communities to run a mod bot, like Draupnir or Mjolnir, participate in things like Community Moderation Effort, and deputize trusted community members as mods for more round the clock coverage.

@exception@mastodon.savvy.ch avatar exception , to random German

Is there an messenger in 2025, that:

  • doesn't depend on anything US (e.g. not )
  • is reasonably secure (e.g. not )
  • runs on all platforms (e.g. not )
  • doesn't depend on commercial servers (e.g. not )

Anything?

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@exception what security issue are you concerned about?

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

widgets in gomuks, improvements in neoboard, and unbans in Draupnir. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/03/07/this-week-in-matrix-2025-03-07/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

The European Council discussing Matrix as the recommended tool for inter-gov comms, clients and bots update. That and much more happened this week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/28/this-week-in-matrix-2025-02-28/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

Governing Board working groups, a curated room directory, and an experimental mail over Matrix.

That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/21/this-week-in-matrix-2025-02-21/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

The Foundation is at a crossroads. We need to raise an additional $610K to break-even, and more immediately to raise $100K to keep our bridges running.

As a neutral custodian for the specification and much more, the Foundation is key to the success of Matrix. It is time to step up for it.

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/

@federico3@oldbytes.space avatar federico3 , to random

I'm back on IRC after using only for years. As the old saying goes, "Unable to decrypt message"

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@haise @federico3 in the core team we almost never see them now, and when we do, we hunt them down aggressively given they are so rare. so please do bugreport them if you see them.

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

The world needs secure communication more than ever, as a bulwark against the surveillance, authoritarianism, and oppression increasingly enabled by Big Tech. Matrix seeks to meet that need, as an open source, decentralised, encrypted comms protocol.

But Trust & Safety is more difficult in a decentralised environment. How are we building a safer Matrix?

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

At FOSDEM we could showcase our work, drown in enthusiasm, gather in smaller committee to discuss what works or what should work differently.

Here's our wrap up post, and if you couldn't make it to Brussels you can still catch up with the talks in the thread below

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/fosdem-wrap-up/

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📹 The Whys and Hows of MatrixRTC

In this conversation, the community talks with Florian, manager of the VoIP team at Element. How does matrixRTC works, will we get SIP bridges, and what does the future hold?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2Djae7atM

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📹 Encryption is hard and my users don't care

Here David from Workadventure explains what his use case is for E2EE, and why it can get in the way. A great conversation about whether he should use E2EE in the first plain ensues.

https://youtu.be/Y8u2RECmKx4

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📹 Getting the Rust SDK running on Wasm

The Rust programming language is often hailed as a perfect companion to Wasm, leading many to wonder: why aren’t matrix clients like Element Web fully leveraging the Rust SDK? Why does the JavaScript SDK remain the optimal choice for building Matrix-based webapps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuqD_Xz06c0

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📹 Demystifying Federation in Matrix

Step into the TARDIS as we go on a deep-dive to explain how federation in Matrix works. We'll cover the protocol, its robustness qualities and how it relates to CRDTs, all whilst operating safely in Byzantine environments far larger than consensus-based blockchains.

To aid in our journey, interactive visualisations backed by real homeservers are used to explain core concepts via TARDIS and other tooling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUP-uNKpn4

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📹 The Matrix State of The Union

Our traditional devroom opening talk to get everyone to speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NQeE_Rm6as

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📹 The road to mainstream Matrix

Matthew discusses where Matrix shines and where it falls short. Buckle up for a history session from the early days to present and beyond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCKhP1jxdk

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📹 State of Synapse: where we're at, Matrix 2.0, and the future

A dive into the state of Synapse, including what we've been up to, what Synapse even is and who it's for, and the challenges we're facing. We'll also talk about the recent efforts to support Matrix 2.0 and pushing the Matrix protocol further, how we're using Rust to fix performance bottlenecks, and where we're going in the future.

https://youtu.be/Xoyyb7VSRFY

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📹 How Ubuntu Entered the Matrix

Ubuntu has recently adopted Matrix for instant messaging. This talk explains how we went through the process of moving from many different messaging platforms to Matrix, and how we ensure our users have the best experience on Matrix.

https://youtu.be/7V0v7O8LDCs

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📹 MatrixRTC: Building Real-Time Applications on Matrix

MatrixRTC is poised to become the foundation for real-time applications built on the Matrix protocol, unlocking new possibilities for secure, extensible communication. This session dives into the latest developments in MatrixRTC, focusing on the final pieces of its proposed specification and showcasing how it enables a broad range of real-time applications.

https://youtu.be/X8yAwFq9nAU

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📹 Robrix: a pure Rust multi-platform Matrix Client and more

Robrix is a new up-and-coming Matrix client for power users, written from scratch in Rust to demonstrate and drive the featureset of Project Robius, a multi-platform app dev framework.

This talk covers the general architecture and features of Robrix, the author's experience developing apps in Rust and the challenges encountered, and how Robrix's needs have driven the development of ecosystem components.

https://youtu.be/v_FkjnxSmv8

matrix OP ,
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@hans Thanks, we look forward to posting primarily on a PeerTube instance as it is very much in line with our values.

We're deeply constrained in terms of resources right now so are making due as best we can, but have every intention of deprioritizing centralized systems and big tech up and down our stack.

@daniel@gultsch.social avatar daniel , to random

It’s incredibly sad that we’ve lost the open, federated team chat space to —where the only viable server isn’t open source, it’s debatable whether the underlying standard is truly open, and the most charitable thing I’ve heard about the UX is that it’s 'OK.'

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Synapse is entirely viable and FOSS under AGPL. The standard is indeed truly open, despite the FUD. Protocols don't have UX, but just as Conversations has great UX for XMPP, there are several clients which have great UX for Matrix. Perhaps focus on improving XMPP rather than complaining about Matrix? 😘

@krille@troet.cafe avatar krille , to random German

After careful consideration I came to the conclusion that it makes no sense to keep the session export/import feature, once the key backup export/import feature is in place.

After a long transition period no one came up with a use case which a session export/import covers that is not covered by just logging in on a new device and import the key backup.

If you have know a valid use case, please comment on this.

Otherwise the key backup export/import will superset it in the next version

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@krille what about folks who don't want to use online backup?

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

Steady progress on MAS, a terraform deployment for Matrix on AWS, and a retreat in Thailand.

That and more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/07/this-week-in-matrix-2025-02-07/

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

Missed FOSDEM, and you want to know how Matrix got where it is right now, where it succeeded, where it fell short, and what's remaining on the Road to Mainstream Matrix?

We have your back!

https://youtu.be/lkCKhP1jxdk

@raimue@hachyderm.io avatar raimue , to random

I tried Element X Android for once again after talking about it at . It feels nice because the room synchronization is so much faster than with Element. I guess I could use it even without supporting threaded replies or URL previews for links. Absolutely do not care about voice calls. But without Spaces to explore and organize rooms, something seems to be missing. I also miss some settings, like seeing other active sessions. Overall still unsure if I want to make the switch.

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@raimue SchildiChat Next is a fork of Element X which already has Spaces support, in case that helps? :)

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

A massive success for Matrix at FOSDEM, Element Call on Cisco devices, and a new version for Draupnir. That and more happened This Week in Matrix!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/03/this-week-in-matrix-2025-02-03/

@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org avatar bert_hubert , to random

My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/communicating-without-musk-and-trump-cloud-kootwijk/

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@burakemir @bert_hubert The ridiculous thing on this is that funding for Matrix from govts is still incredibly small (and not sustainable) thanks to the freerider effect (“why would we pay subscription for something that’s free?”), while they continue to pump huge amounts of € to proprietary US SaaS platforms. ZenDiS and Sweden get it right, but they can’t shoulder it all. We urgently need help.

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@kurtseifried @edzob @burakemir @bert_hubert yup, we are talking to STA/STF (but haven’t had success yet; hopefully this tome will change!)

@spaetz@mas.to avatar spaetz , to random

That was one of the most amazing demos, I have seen. Spin up a @matrix server in seconds and do VoIP calls.

Big laughs for forgotten passwords, and publicly displayed QR auth codes. Well done!

Well done!

Janson stage, preparing the presentation.
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matrix ,
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@spaetz aww thank you! :)

@Edent@mastodon.social avatar Edent , to random

Very honest analysis from the presentation at .
Chasing shiny things is fun, but it doesn't help mainstream adoption or core development.

Lots of amazing experimental projects to grab attention/funding and demo Matrix’s potential and inspire people to build on it: o P2P Matrix! Low bandwidth! Hydrogen! Dendrite! Gitter! o 3D calling! Matrix VR Demo! CRDTs! Element Drive! Applications Beyond Chat! But all this inspirational work stole energy from writing a Killer app.
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@ansiwen @Edent the learnings from dendrite basically got backported to synapse. (and dendrite is continuing on a best-effort basis, and hopefully will be funded again some day).

matrix ,
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@jezdez @Edent @robin the "killer app" being discussed was literally a compelling, native, workhorse client :) no intention to imply it was something novel - just the opposite, in fact.

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

If you're at FOSDEM today, don't miss Matthew's main track talk in Janson amphitheater at 12:00 CET, and the Matrix Devroom that starts right after at 13:00 CET in K4201!

Our crew is still staffing the booth today, with plenty of stickers but we ran out of t-shirts!

@60infoK@poliversity.it avatar 60infoK , to random Italian


Poche ore, e mi sembra di aver guadagnato tempo libero.
Poche ore, e non penso più a dover ribattere alle migliaia di fake, schifezze, affermazioni di putrido razzismo, fascismo come se piovesse di #X
Poche ore, e non ho più ansia di leggere le risposte ai miei post.
Come ci hanno ridotto i social di sti quattro miliardari, a cui abbiamo venduto noi stessi, mamma mia!
Per fortuna c'è il

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@politipet @60infoK https://docs.kazar.ma/ is one such bridge. But Fediverse is probably more than ActivityPub anyway - some people count Matrix as part of it.

@Karelt@mastodon.social avatar Karelt , to random

Tired but satisfied of a long day working for @HSBXL hosting the @matrix meetup and preparing tommorows .

matrix ,
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@Karelt @HSBXL thank you for hosting - it was epic!!!

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org avatar matrix , to random

We're super excited to gather the Matrix community at FOSDEM and share what we have been up to!

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/11/matrix-fosdem-full-force/

All details on our blog, and in the thread below
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Come hear how fast the Matrix ecosystem improves in our Devroom

📆 Sunday 2, 13:00 CET
🗺️ K.4.201