Introducing the nominees for our first ever Governing Board elections 🎉 We are grateful to everyone who has raised their hands, and are positively overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and vision expressed by our nominees: https://matrix.org/governing-board/elections/2024/

Get to know the candidates, and get ready: voting begins on May 18th.

#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #Governance

Governing Board Elections 2024

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^matrix.org

Ich nutze für #Chat fast nur#XMPP und #Matrix.
Matrix hat in den letzten Jahren so zugelegt, dass ich da inzwischen einen privaten und zwei berufliche ID's habe.
Matrix sehe ich auch deshalb als Vorteil, weil es viele öffentliche Räume für alle möglichen interessanten Themen gibt, z.B. GNOME Accessibility...
Was mir aber am besten gefällt ist, dass es ne Reihe unterschiedlicher Clients für alle möglichen Geräte und OS'es gibt und keine Verknüpfung mit ner TelNr oder Handy.

Man könnte den Homeserver der @adminforge@kanoa.de Engagierten ausprobieren
https://nope.chat

Pssst. Mark your calendars: the first annual Matrix Conference will be held in Berlin from September 19-22.

(... and yes, that _is_ immediately following the #OSSummitEU which is being held in Vienna.)

#MatrixCon #Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS

Quick reminder that @element built a metaverse that works better than anything Facebook has shown, for a fraction of the investment, and built entirely on free and open source technology including @matrix : https://thirdroom.io/

#Matrix #ThirdRoom

Third Room

Open, decentralised, immersive worlds built on Matrix

^{Third Room}

"Xfce is moving from IRC to Matrix"

An announcement from Xfce developer Alexander Schwinn(alexxcons):

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_10.html

#Xfce #Matrix

@pvagner@fedi.ml
I've read your reply to @WestphalDenn@social.cologne questions about working with #Gnome on #Linux. Thanx for your insights!

What interests me:
Is the #Electron#Desktop#App#Element for #Matrix#Chat accessible for #blind#users? You use it?

#a11y#Acessiblity

I've been glued to the @matrix Governing Board nomination form results since it opened 🤩

It's a wonderful feeling, seeing the nominations come in from many different people who care about Matrix and want to help make it better for one another.

Folks have been working toward this open governance for years now, and every day it gets more real!

June 3rd is when our first ever election results will be announced. Then the next phase of hard work begins 🚀

#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS #Governance

➡️ It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

The United Nations ditches Big Tech in a bid for security

UNICC has chosen Element to secure its communications

^{Chiara Castro (TechRadar pro)}

Using @matrix at scale isn't fun. There are way too many matrix moment™ situations to count.

And now it was discovered that maybe there's a problem where banned users can still read rooms with their banned accounts?

Seriously, has anyone using #matrix ever been involved with moderation?

We're very happy to use a free and open source, decentralized tool for chat - @matrix has been a great resource! Fedora contributors can easily connect with each other or outside communities with a single account.

All users who make a Fedora Account are able generate a related Matrix account from fedora.im.

Learn more about Matrix and how Fedora uses it! https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-chat-your-gateway-to-matrix/

#Matrix #Element #Fedora #OpenSource

Fedora Chat: Your Gateway to Matrix - Fedora Magazine

What is Matrix and how to get connected to the Fedora Community via Fedora Chat, the Fedora Project homeservers.

^{David Cantrell (Fedora Project)}

#Followerpower ist gefragt. Nachdem großen Update der Messenger-Matrix habe ich noch den Line-Messenger ergänzt. Ich bitte alle #Follower mal einen prüfenden Blick auf die Matrix zu werfen - insbesondere auf jene Messenger, die ihr selbst benutzt. Sollten Angaben nicht stimmen bzw. überarbeitet werden, so meldet das bitte. Entweder hier oder über die Projektseite.

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix.html

#messenger #element #matrix #signal #simplex #telegram #line
#threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

is there a hosting provider that offeres managed email, xmpp, and matrix hosting as a single bundle?

#AskFedi #xmpp #email #matrix #hosting

#Sweden's public sector says goodbye to #BigTech

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/swedens-public-sector-says-goodbye-to-big-tech

#privacy #cybersecurity #Tele2Collaborate #Matrix #Element #politics

Sweden's public sector says goodbye to Big Tech

Tele2 Collaborate is a new secure collaboration hub

^{Chiara Castro (TechRadar pro)}

Now is a good time to become a Matrix Foundation member, because it will allow you to vote for members of the new Governing Board, who will support and guide Matrix.

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/election-announcement/

#matrix

Announcing the 2024 Governing Board elections

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Josh Simmons (matrix.org)}

Wir suchen EntwicklerInnen, die Lust auf #matrix und #Kotlin / #KotlinMultiplatform haben. Wir entwickeln den https://timmy-messenger.de und möchten Menschen finden, die gut in unser kleines Team passen und Spaß an agiler Produktentwicklung ohne Hierarchien haben. Viel von dem, was wir entwickeln ist #opensource. Mehr dazu hier: https://germantechjobs.de/de/jobs/connect2x-GmbH-Softwareentwickler-mwd-fr-Matrix-Messenger

Würde mich freuen, wenn das gut geteilt wird 🙂

Timmy | Die sichere Art zu kommunizieren

Der vollintegrierbare TI-Messenger von connect2x.

^{timmy-messenger.de}

So I'm just a few days into running my #Matrix server, and I have to say that doing any kind of public server that requires moderation seems like a very half-baked proposition right now.

Using any kind of bot for moderation—the only real option because bans do not propagate to all rooms in a "space,"—requires an encryption hall pass proxy that hasn't seen a commit in almost a year, despite several bugs. That's to say nothing of the awful state of documentation.

I'm soldiering on, but this is some classic open source nonsense. "Leave the easy proprietary platforms and just host your own thing! Here's no help at all, also this and that don't work. RTFM! Except the TFM isn't finished."

GitHub - matrix-org/pantalaimon: E2EE aware proxy daemon for matrix clients.

E2EE aware proxy daemon for matrix clients. Contribute to matrix-org/pantalaimon development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Thanks for replying. As far as using tax payer funds to support #Matrix, I know that there would be massive resistance to this idea in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 (using taxes to fund anything long term is always controversial, regardless of the reason).

I do believe managed hosting would be a better option to support your foundation, which is a path that #WordPress, #WriteFreely & #Minds are using.

"You have to understand, we’re responsible for taxpayer money here. We can’t just make a donation to your open source project."

— a national government who relies on #Matrix when being asked to support it financially

Read more about the problem and some initiatives that are responding to it:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #funding #xz #sustainability

Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

Open source infrastructure *must* be a publicly funded service, and funders need to support maintenance – not just new feature development 📣

This is on our minds this week in the wake of the #xz news, and as we continue to seek funding to support #Matrix.

Read the latest from project lead, @matthew: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

#OpenSource #FOSS #OpenStandards

Open Source Infrastructure must be a publicly funded service.

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

Tomorrow's the official start of #30DayFOSSChallenge! We've got a few people chatting in the #matrix already: https://matrix.to/#/#30DayFOSSChallenge:mozilla.org

Feel free to join us. Don't know what I'm talking about? Look here: https://nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChallenge.html

#foss #floss #opensource #freeculture #degoogle #indieweb

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

^matrix.to

Ja tinc creada la classe Python per a connectar a l'API de #Matrix (em sento com si fos Neo 😂).
La classe inclou, per ara, tres mètodes:
- obtenir informació d'un usuari ✅
- registrar un nou usuari ✅
- llistar usuaris
Els mètodes amb ✅ funcionen perfectament. Encara no he provat el que llista els usuaris.
Ja he alliberat el projecte sencer:

https://codeberg.org/spla/matrix

Aquest codi permet als usuaris locals d'un servidor #Mastodon registrar-se ells mateixos en un servidor Matrix/Synapse.

matrix

Mastodon's bot that register server's users to Matrix network

^Codeberg.org

https://blog.commune.sh/federated-webrings/

In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.

Let's envision what a truly federated chat like #Matrix could do to improve the cross-connectivity of chat channels. Most of these features are already possible, they just haven't been implemented yet in a community-oriented client experience.

#CommuneApp #fediverse #community

Federated Webrings

^{Erlend Sogge Heggen (Commune Blog)}

Hey, I'm currently doing a little research on the cost of modern social media and messaging, given that cost is an everlasting discussion when trying to move people to more free alternatives.

I am still looking for data for messaging, such as #XMPP and #Matrix. So if you have or know someone who operates a somewhat sizable instance for either XMPP or Matrix and would potentially share some details about operational cost with me I would love to hear about it! :)

Thank you so much! 💙

Neue Matrix-Clients: Element-X und SchildiChat Next

Element X und SchildiChat Next bieten viele spannende Neuerungen!

#Matrix #Element #SchildiChat #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/neue-matrix-clients-element-x-und-schildichat-next

Neue Matrix-Clients: Element-X und SchildiChat Next

^GNU/Linux.ch

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:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/883

#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

https://odysee.com/apple-updates-imessage-with-post-quantum#22135b18ecb01142fa84c5d06537fc6ebe422855

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: https://matrix.to/#/#codeberg-space:matrix.org

Consider joining the efforts if you are interested.

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

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

#Matrix #OpenSource #OpenStandards #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS

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#Fediverse
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