Not a huge sample size, but the results are in!

If you use #Matrix, drop an #AltText comment below your images and screencasts for #ScreenReader, #Braille and other #Accessibility tools until we get support in the spec:

github.com/matrix-org/matrix-s…

#a11y #Element #Fractal #Cinny #FluffyChat #Quaternion #NeoChat #GNOME #KDE #elementaryOS #XFCE

Allow providing a text alternative/caption for all media/non-text-content · Issue #883 · matrix-org/matrix-spec

Suggestion I would like to specify an alternative text for all media content uploaded to Matrix including casual uploads, user avatar and room avatar, and I think this should be supported to comply...

^GitHub

#imessage joined the post quantum encryption game

Will #matrix also do the same? @element @matrix

#element #privacy

odysee.com/apple-updates-imess…

Apple Updates iMessage with Post Quantum Encryption

In this video I discuss how Apple added post quantum encryption to their message app. iMessage is still proprietary, and still only works on Apples proprietary hardware, so while iMessage with PQ3 is...

^Odysee

Most annoying?

#threads #clothing #c #debugging #matrix #meta

• Loose clothing threads (31%, 6 votes)
• Debugging C threads (15%, 3 votes)
• Matrix threads (15%, 3 votes)
• Meta threads (36%, 7 votes)

Contributing to Codeberg:

There are now chat rooms for #Backups and #Ceph under the Codeberg #Matrix space: matrix.to/#/#codeberg-space:ma…

Consider joining the efforts if you are interested.

Full list of areas looking for contribution, including non-technical work: codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contribu…

Contributing

Want to help make Codeberg better? Here, you can find out more about our projects and who runs them. Or start your own.

^Codeberg.org

Are you a #ScreenReader and/or #Braille user on #Matrix?

Should we be adding messages as captions until #AltText is supported?

#A11Y #Accessibility #BRLTTY #FOSS #OpenSource #Element #GNOME #KDE #elementaryOS #XFCE

• Yes, always. (66%, 4 votes)
• A quick summary is fine, I'll ask if I need more (16%, 1 vote)
• As long as you do it if I ask. (16%, 1 vote)

Coding our Matrix bot in Rust. This time:

• Finished !greet, making sure it only affects this room
• Started on a schema upgrade for the arnie plugin, so we can have multiple personalities

Next time:

• More work on allowing multiple people, so we can !arnie !person !add and make a new one

Whoa! TIL just how widespread Matrix is at universities in Germany.

This, on top of adoption by their national healthcare system and other corners of their public sector.

Source: doc.matrix.tu-dresden.de/why/

#Matrix #OpenSource #OpenStandards #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS

Ce JEUDI 14 MARS sur #NANTES

ATELIER #MATRIX - #MOBILIZON par @lafediversenantaise
au #BouillonduCoin, café associatif du quartier #Dervallières-Zola

Venez découvrir ou partager vos connaissances,
y rencontrer les groupes locaux qui se développent sur ces réseaux,
Y FAIRE GRANDIR ENSEMBLE LA COMMUNAUTÉ NANTAISE.

Entrée libre et gratuite..

N'hésitez pas à passer : mobilizon.fr/events/9753a03b-2…

Et merci d'avance à celleux qui pourront relayer l'info ! 🙂

#Fediverse
#Contributopia @Framasoft

Digital Markets Act, a Moment-ous release, a Next SchildiChat, and Nheko's support for intentional mentions. All this, and more, has happened This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2024/03/08/thi…

#Matrix #TWIM

This Week in Matrix 2024-03-08

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Hubert Chathi (matrix.org)}

Check out this recap of the work that Community Platform Engineering did in 2023! The CPE team is made up of the folks who manage Fedora infrastructure, Fedora release engineering, and @centos infrastructure.

Projects worked on or investigated:
* Making a @matrix native zodbot
* Moving our registry to quay.io
* Backend service for Fedora Badges
* And more!

➡️ communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Matrix

2023 Year in Review: Community Platform Engineering (CPE) – Fedora Community Blog

This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) Team. Every quarter, the CPE team works together with CentOS Project and Fedora Project community leaders and representatives to choose projects that will b…

^{zlopez (Fedora Project)}

The next MapComplete community call is scheduled for friday the 29th of March, at 14:00 Brussels time.

This is a good moment to pass by, ask questions or get in touch about the last developments about #MapComplete
This happens in our #Matrix chatroom at app.element.io/#/room/#MapComp… ; more information here osmcal.org/event/2711/

MapComplete Community Call

MapComplete Community Call, 29th March 14:00 (Europe/Brussels) . The monthly MapComplete community calls are a chance for everyone involved with MapComplete to come…

^{OpenStreetMap Calendar}

Hey @matrix and @austin do you (or anyone) know if there's a general purpose Matrix community forum? The sort of place we can get help triaging problems with apps without bothering the devs with a plethora of issue tickets that turn out to be fixable at our end.

#Matrix

Do you use Matrix for chatting? Do you like Vim? I got the perfect tool for you. ✨

📨 **iamb**: A Matrix client for Vim addicts.
💬 Use Vim keybindings for message editing, window navigation, and tab management in your terminal!

🔗 Docs: iamb.chat
⭐ GitHub: github.com/ulyssa/iamb

🦀 @matrix + @ratatui_rs

#rustlang #tui #ratatui #matrix #client #messaging #vim #neovim #terminal

Oh. Ejabberd 24.02 released. It's able to connect to Matrix? 😳

process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-…

#ejabberd #xmpp #matrix

ejabberd 24.02 / ProcessOne

🚀 Introducing ejabberd 24.02: A Huge Release! ejabberd 24.02 has just been release and well, this is a huge release with 200 commits and more in the libraries.

^{Jérôme Sautret (ProcessOne)}

#FluffyChat v1.18.0 has been released 🥳

FluffyChat v1.18.0 adds some new features, fixes a lot of bugs and improves the notifications on Android by showing them in a conversations style. Voice messages got the ability to change the play speed and the status header is now optional.

Read more at: ko-fi.com/post/FluffyChat-v1-1…

#matrix #flutter #development

FluffyChat v1.18.0 has been released 🥳

Krille-chan published a post on Ko-fi

^Ko-fi

Today in #MatrixRooms: Searching #Matrix rooms from multiple places, just like with #SepiaSearch or #LemmyVerse.

Detailed instructions can be found in the alt text. In short, for #Element and #SchildiChat Web/Desktop user:
0. Open search in Element (Ctrl+K)
1. In the "Show" dropdown menu, press "Add new server...". Type matrixrooms.info and proceed.
2. Pick newly added rooms directory.

More on how to make this work in mobile apps, let all users of your instance benefit from this rooms directory or set this up as a search engine on your very own #SearXNG:
gitlab.com/etke.cc/mrs/api/-/b…

Use XMPP! It's totally secure and federated. The only thing you can use it to talk about is how much you love XMPP and how much you hate Matrix.

xkcd.com/191/
#XMPP#Matrix#Lojban#XKCD#XKCD191

Lojban

^xkcd

The Ubuntu Matrix homeserver is now live, 3 years of etke.cc, and great progress in our fundraiser!

That and much more happened #ThisWeekInMatrix thanks to you all: matrix.org/blog/2024/02/twim/

#TWIM #Matrix

This Week in Matrix 2024-02-16

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{MTRNord (matrix.org)}

@lil5 Thanks for reaching out, and sorry your email didn't get a response. Our web team operates through issues, PRs, and discussion in #matrix-web:matrix.org.

Would you be willing to open an issue on the repository? That way nothing gets lost in translation and folks can ask follow up questions as needed.

We can open the issue for you, it just might take longer for the team to process.

We are bowled over by your support! We're up to 162 Individual Members, 114 of which are new, and we've doubled the number of organizational members 🥳

This is encouraging, though we still have a long way to go to fill the gap in our budget.

If you believe in open source, open standards, privacy, and decentralization: this is your call to action.

Help us secure the future of Matrix by joining today: matrix.org/support/

#Matrix #OpenSource #OpenStandards #Privacy #Decentralization #FOSS

Support Matrix

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

Are you a Matrix managed services provider? Are you listed on the Matrix.org website yet?

If not, we'd love to add you! We encourage managed services providers, as well as other participants in the Matrix ecosystem, to submit pull requests to list themselves in the Ecosystem section of our website.

We're up to 7 managed services providers and we know there are more out there!

Check them out: matrix.org/ecosystem/hosting/

#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS

Hosting

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

Matrix wouldn't be where it is today without the vibrant ecosystem of FOSS clients, bots, bridges, servers, SDKs, and more!

And it's the people who make it all possible.

Please join us in spreading the love on this #ILoveFreeSoftwareDay and give a shoutout to your favorite projects! 💞

#Matrix #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenStandards #ILoveFS

This previous month for Gnuxie & Draupnir, January 2024 applied-langua.ge/~gnuxie/post…

#Matrix #Draupnir

#ILoveFreeSoftware, you love #FreeSoftware. Let's get that down. Most of the time you don't even notice that you're using a device running a #Linux kernel, #GNUtils or services like #ApacheWebserver, #Matrix etc. as they just work and don't get in your way; don't bother you reading ancient 📜 #EULA; don't track you ...

But have you ever said thank you to all the contributors supporting the projects and sustaining #SoftwareFreedom?! If not, then today's your lucky day.

Create a sharepic via @fsfe's sharepic.fsfe.org/#ilovefs tool and use the #ILoveFS hashtag to show your appreciation. Additionally, spend some time looking up the #Fediverse handle of your favorite projects and mentioned them.

Happy I 🧡 Free Software Day!

I wish that #Matrix (and #Synapse) were better designed.

It has become among the most popular open messaging protocols, but it remains a scalability nightmare.

It's literally the Blockchain of messaging. Its current state is given by the sum of the whole chain of events received since t=0. It's a brittle append-only ledger, and any modifications you do to it are very likely to break it.

Do you have a huge 100GB database and you want to clean up old stuff? Sorry, you can't. There are some non-official solutions for compacting the events, but they're all likely to break your db - and none worked so far in my case.

Do you have users on your instance that entered a busy room on matrix.org? Then you'll get all the join/leave events of that busy room on your db, with no way of deleting them, and nothing to do unless your users exit those rooms.

Did you start your instance by toying with the default SQLite backend, and now that it's become big you want to move to Postgres? Sorry, no official guides provided, only unofficial procedures scattered across a bunch of blogs.

Do you want to change the name of your server? Sorry, you can't. All the events are tightly coupled to your server name. The advised solution is to simply start a new instance.

Do you want to keep the same server name but spin off a new instance? Sorry, you can't, because your server name, your keys and the events sent to other servers are all tightly coupled, so your new instance may not be able to reliably exchange messages with servers that were federated to your previous one.

Do you want to migrate your account and conversations to a new server, or even just get a backup of your data? Well, you can just forget it, because there's no way of disentangling the thick mesh of events and moving it somewhere else.

Such a rigid and brittle implementation shouldn't have become an open de facto standard without much questioning about its poor design decisions.

At the very least, some official tools must be provided to enable admins to compact events. If the size of the database is guaranteed to increase indefinitely, then entry barriers against self-hosting are only going to increase.

Matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

Exciting news! The Ubuntu Community is now on Matrix. As of today, we're now fully federated with the rest of "The Matrix"! Anyone can join the party 🎉

Did you know that you can also find the Ubuntu HPC community on Matrix? We're an active group supercomputing professionals that meet every Wednesday over Jitsi. Just look for hpc:ubuntu.com when exploring rooms.

Hope to see you there with the rest of the Ubuntu Community 😎

#Ubuntu #Community #Matrix #HPC #supercomputing

I would rather to see a bounty to get @matrix to stop using #CaaC (Cloudflare as a Crutch) and switch to #securityByDesign. I can’t be motivated to donate to #Matrix project until it shakes free from its tech giant dependency.

sopuli.xyz/post/8923970

We are positively overwhelmed with the outpouring of support 🚀

People are responding to our call for help! We've also had a number of smaller organizations show up and begin the process of becoming supporting members.

This is encouraging progress, though we still have a lot of work to do to hit our fundraising goals.

Join us in securing the future of open, private, decentralized communications with Matrix: matrix.org/blog/2024/01/2024-r…

#Matrix #OpenSource #OpenStandards #FOSS #Interoperability

A roadmap and appeal for help from The Matrix.org Foundation

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Josh Simmons (matrix.org)}

I wrote another miniblog, this time about why I decided to donate to @matrix.

frisk.space/posts/matrix-donat…

#matrix

Reasoning for making a Matrix donation

My own reasoning for supporting Matrix organization

^frisk.space

What do 70 pizzas, a pink gate, a white rabbit, the Digital Markets Act, the German public administration and 100 t-shirts have in common?

Of course it's @matrix, and all the answers to the questions above are in the wrap-up of our Matrix adventure in Brussels!

matrix.org/blog/2024/02/fosdem…

#matrix #DMA #fosdem #brussels

FOSDEM 2024 Wrap Up

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

« Opening up communication silos with Matrix 2.0 & the EU Digital Markets Act »
› fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event… [ @fosdem talk by @matthew ]

#Matrix Foundation (@matrix) need our support ! 💰
› matrix.org/membership/ [ Support ]

#Funding #FLOSS

Why become a member?

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

Didn't get a chance to go to @fosdem this year, or missed any of the @matrix talks for whatever reason?

We got you covered! Here is a YouTube Playlist with all of the Matrix talks @ FOSDEM 2024

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl5…

⬇️ All the videos details below ⬇️

#fosdem #matrix #talk #devroom #janson

FOSDEM 2024

Sdílejte svá videa s přáteli, rodinou a celým světem.

^YouTube

#Matrix needs our help.

youtu.be/s5BrVVf0B1I?t=503

Support: matrix.org/membership/

#LiberaPay: liberapay.com/matrixdotorg
#Patreon: patreon.com/matrixdotorg
#DonorBox: donorbox.org/keep-matrix-excit…

#funding #fosdem #foss

Blazing fast Matrix, Native E2EE Group Calls, state of the art auth and potential WhatsApp interop.

Matthew covers the last year in Matrix and how it can be used to speed up the opening of communications silo required by the EU Digital Markets Act

youtu.be/s5BrVVf0B1I

#matrix #e2ee #voip #oidc #dma #whatsapp #silos

FOSDEM 2024 - Opening up communication silos with Matrix 2.0 and the EU Digital Markets Act

What role does Matrix play in opening up communications silo, as mandated by the EU Digital Markets Act? Matthew walks us through this, after a general updat...

^YouTube

We remain excited about the Digital Markets Act and the push for interoperability: wired.com/story/whatsapp-inter…

If you didn't catch the main stage talk from Matthew, Matrix's project lead, at FOSDEM, we encourage you to watch the recording once it's posted online: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…

#Matrix #Interoperability #OpenSource #OpenStandards #FOSS #FOSDEM #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #EUPol #DMA

WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.

^{Matt Burgess (WIRED)}

@matrix @fosdem

Nice dream, but realistic?! I would like a generally understandable explanation as to why this should happen.
I love the idea of Matrix, but in terms of functionality, speed and stability it lags far behind the big competitors.

#matrix #fosdem #fosdem2024