In April, we introduced policy servers to help tackle the spread of harmful content on Matrix. Today, we’re announcing that our implementation is available as open source. Say hello to policyserv v1!
I’m trying to migrate over one of my smaller Discord groups to Matrix. There are obvious UX shortcomings, but most of them are no big deal and worth it for getting away from an enshittifying platform.
Bridges are one of the reasons Matrix is called Matrix: let’s matrix all the networks together! They are key to onboard new users into the network. However, maintaining and operating bridges, in particular to closed, proprietary platforms, is expensive: they need to be kept up to date with any change made by the platform on a regular basis and they’re fiddly to keep up and running.
I’ve joined a few communities, but most seem to be pretty dead. Any recommendations would be welcome. Size doesn’t matter, all that matters is that they are active.
The Matrix.org homeserver [2] is currently experiencing a "major outage" [1.1] — the server is currently offline [1.3]. The timeline of events is currently (2025-09-03T00:14Z) as follows:
Last month we issued a Pre-disclosure: Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations, describing a coordinated release to fix two high severity protocol vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-49090; the other not yet allocated a CVE). That release is now available as of 17:00 UTC on August 11, 2025. Server updates are now available, and MSCs & spec updates will follow on Thursday, August 14, 2025, bringing us to version 1.16 of the spec later in the month, and introducing room version 12.
A frequent activity that my closest friend group likes to do is spectate on single-player games played by one person via screen-sharing (and we're mostly introverted so no Twitch for us lol; plus, that's Amazon's playground anyway). This is where Discord unfortunately reigns supreme: its screen-sharing is somehow absolutely fantastic and near-flawless.
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Sunshine (she/her)
Sunshine (she/her)
Jade
BrikoX
Zagorath
Kasane Teto
kate
Kalcifer
einfach_orangensaft
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Nemeski
notes
Lena
Nemeski
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Fitik
fxomt [abandoned account]
