Venue clean, all remaining items packed. Good-bye Kaleidoscoop, thanks a lot to all volunteers, the @matrix foundation, our sponsors, our speakers and my friends @thibaultamartin and @HarHarLinks for rocking the #MatrixConf2025.
Another cool feature of #XMPP are "gateways" that make it relatively easy to connect with other IMs. e.g. #Libervia to #ActivityPub and #email (CC @Goffi )
Not related to the outage, really, this morning I found myself searching for federated IM protocols, ideally end-to-end encrypted. I know we have @matrix but was looking for something more DM-oriented like Signal, but federated.
Looked into XMPP, but E2E encryption relies on add-ons. It seems the closest we have to that is actually #Matrix.
We had an amazing after show gathering with the activists from @hackstub after a successful last evening of the #MatrixConf2025. It was an interesting exchange, we learned a lot about your work and it was super pleasant to network with other hackers sharing our vision and values we bear as the ecosystem.
Now time to catch some sleep before rocking the last conference day.
Join us for the Matrix Conference from October 15 to 18, 2025. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
My talks at #MatrixConf2025 are tomorrow 14:00 CET and 16:00 CET. I am talking about our progress on "Invisible Crypto" and agreeing a shared terminology to talk about Matrix encryption. Watch live at conference.matrix.org/watch/ . Recordings will be available later too.
Just booked the train ticket to #Strasbourg for the #matrix conference 15-18 Oct. Check out the schedule: 2025.matrix.org/schedule/#full… @fairkom is a silver sponsor of the matrix foundation and will present their experiences deploying SchulchatRLP for half a million pupils, teachers and parents on Sat Oct 18th 10:00. The greatest challenges were syncing users and groups from a central IDM and building a #kubernetes cluster on premises. @matrix
Whether you want to hear how an organization deployed Matrix at scale or learn what the engineers are doing to improve the protocol, the Matrix Conference has a track for you.
La Contre-Voie lance un nouveau service de messagerie instantanée, qui incorpore également une plateforme de visioconférence ! 🎉
Basé sur le logiciel Element, développé par la fondation #Matrix, ce service constitue une alternative à Microsoft Teams ou Slack ✨ lacontrevoie.fr/blog/2025/nouv…
Beeindruckend finde ich den lebendigen und vielfältigen Austausch in den #Matrix Räumen von @librechurch@kirche.social auf synod.im Von Fragen und Ideen zu digital souveränen Tools, die auf dem Marktplatz diskutiert werden bis zu Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen immer kleiner werdender christlicher Gemeinden im Raum Glauben teilen.
First of all: Thank you for your work! I use it on Android alongside with other #Matrix Clients. So far I remember, the onboarding was good. Generelly it feels fast (after) sync. The chatlist items, for me, could have a little bit more padding. The gui with the bubble style in the Chats I don't like much. It's nice to have some settings for gui. The accent color could have more options.
I would not underestimate the value of having a go-to home server free of charge for people new to #matrix. In the end, it is the members of the foundation to decide whether they agree with the use of the budget they contribute. Are you also a member?
Regarding the more general accusation on #Matrix being just another VC-backed one-company-product, I'd like to refer to another recent post from the foundation, and only quote from its final paragraph:
> … triggered some defensive reaction with other European players in the market. It is a shame that small European players feel the need to fight one another rather than collaborate via open source software against the bigger non-European and proprietary players.
For example, there's a WG for documenting moderation issues; reducing spam, easier handling of trolls, griefers and grifters.
If you're keen to get involved in keeping the Matrix protocol network fully decentralised, surveillance-free, and non-corporate, this could be a good way.
This is what RocketChat were doing since about 2022. Although their documentation suggests they are working on full Matrix support inside the RC server itself, due sometime this month;
It's an excellent read, with lots of good advise, including having a public "hello" profile and another unpublished chat profile for private chatting. #deltachat apps have pervasive multi-profile support (and multi-device support) so it's pretty easy to establish such a two-profile setup.
Hmm, ja tohle moc nechapu. Co je spatne na Matrix? Jestli se nepletu, tak: i) nekolik otevrenych implementaci serveru, ii) nekolik otevrenych implementaci klientu pro ruzna zarizeni (nb, mobil, web), iii) otevrena specifikace protokolu, iv) protokol je federovany. Jakykoli IM bez tohohle jednoduse nedosahuje kvalit #matrix (v dlouhodobem horizontu, a samozrejme IMO).
Vielen Dank für's Teilen der Slides über eine faire Cloud. Als Chat-Alternativen könnte man vielleicht aus verschiedenen Gründen stärkeren Fokus auf #Matrix legen als auf Signal.
Everyone is now realizing that WhatsApp is evolving towards its latest form (archive.md/L3W74). If you value secure messaging, you may want to check out @signalapp or @matrix (wich is #federated). EPFL also has its own Matrix instance at matrix.epfl.ch (use @element as a client).
The past few days I've been building a small tool for checking how many members of a given Matrix room support which maximum room version. The idea has been sparked by room version 12 being released, so that one can assess the adoption rate for the new room version and make an educated decision on when to upgrade rooms.
I know punching down on Matrix is something people like to do here, but this was a good read about how difficult things are for them: lobste.rs/s/muk05v/reflections…
We released version 0.12.1 of #nheko! This release includes a few security fixes around html escaping into the UI and properly attaching a mark of the web on Windows. I highly recommend you upgrade!
This release also takes the first steps to room version 12 compatibility regarding the upcoming #matrix security release.
Security
Fix html escaping in several locations.
Thank you, HarHarLinks, for the report.
Encode urls in tooltips to prevent confusion.
Thank you, Emma, for the report.
Mark downloads with a ...
- Knock-knock. - Who's there? - Dozen. - Dozen who? - Dozen anyone want to let me in?
Celebrating a dozen of #Fractal versions with knocking support! Get Fractal 12, the new version of your favourite #Matrix client for #GNOME from #Flathub now!
Knock, knock, knock… on wood rooms, baby 🎵 Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 🎶 That’s right, Fractal 12 adds support for knocking, among other things. Read all about the improvements since 11.
There's been a lot of negativity around #Matrix and #Element recently. And I (somewhat) joined in and expressed my frustration with it every now and then. Something I still appreciate around #Matrix is the fact, that they listen to (most of) the criticism and acknowledge (many of) their problems. There's a nice self-critical video addressing all of this recent criticism: youtube.com/watch?v=OyuqM7RbX5…
In which Matthew monologues for 35 minutes about listening & learning from the wave of critical blog-posts about Matrix over the last week or so.Full transcr...
Working hard between the Website WG and the T&S R&D WG to get out a room upgrading guide for #matrix - we will see how close we get to finish it in time for next week's room version security update release, but it already has lots of useful info in bullet point form: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o… If you have the time to help turn it into nice text (or even pictures?!!), please send patches!
🎩 Website & Content WG in collaboration with T&S R&D WG
Tackles #2704, though there may be multiple iterations in this or in followup-PRs - depends on the Hydra release timeline and con...
#nextcloud made it possible for me to (self-)host my (and my family's) phone calendars, contacts, and even when pictures are taken, they get uploaded to our Nextcloud instance, and NOT to google/apple.
10/10, would recommend for any household looking to #degoogle.
Others include #searxng, has literally replaced all monolithic search engines, works great, no ads or AI
You buy a new iPhone and your wallet cries. You wake up in your bed and believe that you have to buy a new phone every year. Or, you take the repair pill and you stay on iFixit.com and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
