I just submitted our talk proposal for @roost.tools to FOSDEM! If it’s accepted, you should come to hear about how we’re bringing the open source model to trust and safety, starting with the open source Osprey project that’s already being used in production across multiple large, well-known platforms. 👀

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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?

matrix.org/blog/2025/02/buildi…

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Building a Safer Matrix

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Jim Mackenzie, VP Trust & Safety — The Matrix.org Foundation (matrix.org)}