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> you don't see the CTO coming to chat about it. Speaking as the CTO at Element (and proj lead for Matrix), i feel like i've spent a bit too much time coming to chat about Matrix o…

I've been keeping a record of the increasingly opinionated vocab it fixates on: * Projection (it seems to love to describe one data structure as a projection of another) * Strand (…

P2P Matrix (and Matrix over DMLS) is back as of a few days ago: see https://arewep2pyet.com and in particular https://arewep2pyet.com/assets/pdf/2026-07-09%20DWebCamp%20P... :)

This is just the ~8 year old ICAP antivirus scanning system which Element has always had, built for government customer deployments who need antivirus, but implemented for Element …

you may be shocked to hear that this is gemini hallucinating; Element (creators of Matrix) has never taken investment from a16z; it must be getting mixed up with a different Elemen…

there is a definite irony in switching from being vendorlocked to Signal (open source but closed and locked to a US non-profit) to being vendorlocked to Wire (open source but close…

If you're talking about https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/analysis-of-reported-issues-... , I'm not entirely sure that characterisation is accurate :)

It's more that they haven't gone public with it yet, and it's not for us to out them :)

There's a big gap between lots of orgs using it, and lots of orgs paying for development of it. That said, BWI in Germany is currently funding custom status so it should be coming …

This is true. We just published a map of it: https://element.io/en/matrix-in-europe

On the Matrix side, "unexpected" decryption errors got fixed in ~Sept 2024. (There are still a few scenarios where e.g. if you delete your identity keys by logging out of all your …

potentially wrapping their own package or distro rather than using something like ESS Community? Or perhaps they left registration open and had abuse problems?

ooh, that's cool - come tell us about it in matrix.to/#/#twim:matrix.org when it's ready :)

the main bit of auth which was left unimplemented on matrix-workers was the critical logic which authorizes traffic over federation: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/server-server-ap…

Yes, that's the difference. Loads of Matrix servers have nothing exposed to index, and steer clear of public rooms, and so wouldn't show up on MRS's stats. Whereas I literally sele…

On the Matrix accessibility side, Element X has improved loads over the years - https://element.io/blog/helping-to-get-everyone-in-their-ele... and https://element.io/blog/element-…

The idea of crowdfunding Discordish features for Matrix from disaffected Discorders (e.g. using the premium acct system we've built for matrix.org) has come up a bunch. The problem…

that would be a bit like w3c.org not running a web server on their domain…?

We're taking it for granted that people do not want to be tracked on the internet, and certainly don't want everyone to have to verify themselves on every site they use. I personal…

That post is 2023 vintage and is both outdated and questionable in parts. 19. "media downloads are unauthenticated by default" -> fixed in Jun 2024: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06…

I wrote the OP, so to try to clarify: > isn't Matrix based out of the UK and primary hosted instances on AWS in the UK? It doesn't matter what country you run your server in or whe…

...and while we have no choice but implement it on the matrix.org instance, other folks running their own servers are responsible for their own choices.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty/-/tree/main/src/matrix... might be able to help you?