Rappler rolled out our matrix protocol chat app in 2023. In 2025, up to 65 news groups joined a shared reality: public chat rooms to strengthen local journalism. Sick of insidious manipulation of Big Tech? Join us! rappler.com/about/specia... via
@rappler.com.web.brid.gy #ReclaimOurRights
Pangea Chat as a new Silver Member, 3 new Project Hydra MSCs and a big Element Call update! This and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2026/03...
Check out @edouard.paris’s new @matrix.org powered server the atproto community in France @atproto.fr
You can use your atproto account to login.
Inviting by link, splitting the costs of anything from dinner to your whole workation, and speeding up Element X Android - this and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2026/02...
Our analysis of reported issues in vodozemac: matrix.org/blog/2026/02...
If it's a protocol suggestion (which "push rules based on time of day" arguably is) then github.com/matrix-org/m... - there doesn't seem to be an issue for this already. github.com/matrix-org/m... is close. Alternatively you could drive it via an implementation, e.g. github.com/element-hq/e...
hey look, a thoughtful and honest communication from @matrix.org on the nuances and challenges of age verification since a bunch of people moved from discord!
matrix.org/blog/2026/02...
We're delighted to welcome the massive influx of users looking for decentralised alternatives to Discord!
Here's what to expect, and some clarity on the growing challenges posed by age verification.
matrix.org/blog/2026/02...
in which the account registration rate on the matrix.org homeserver hockeysticks over the last few hours.
Hm, did something happen over at Discord?
🎤 Missed Amandine Le Pape and Matthew Hodgson’s talk “Matrix state of the Union” at FOSDEM?
🚀 From real-world deployments and recent ecosystem updates, to why the European Commission recommends Matrix, they give a clear snapshot of where Matrix is today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Keu...
For our v1.0 release, @discord.com has pulled the open source version back internally and is running 100% of their production traffic through Osprey while @safety.bsky.app has been running it in production since v0.1. @matrix.org is getting ready for their own Osprey deployment.
il y avait plein de pizzas végétaliennes; désolé si vous ne les avez pas trouvées :(
It's time for the mission report, let's start the YouTube LiveStream!
www.youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...
Time is up for our hackathon! Our mighty teams have successfully hacked their way towards the Matrix Caps! We'll start live streaming the results in a few minutes!
www.youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...
A drawing of a gizmo that is properly polished, doesn't have dangling cables anymore. The screen reads "v2". Below it there is a progress bar reaching 80%.
A picture of a person proudly standing next to their laptop. Their laptop has a the new client they work on open, The client now supports displaying the room list and intentional mentions. In the background, someone smiles as they work on their own laptop.
QuadRadical ismaking steady progress on Nexus, MatMaul is hooking encrypted search into Element X... the prototypes are polishing up!
A drawing of a gizmo. It has a cable dangling, a glitch on the screen, and a post it note with todos. The screen displays v0.1. The progress bar to the crate has reached 60%.
A picture of two people hacking on their laptops, next to a receipt printer.
We're starting to see the first results of the hackathon! Florian here is building a Rust bot that talks to Christian's receipt printer, and makes it print what they send to a room.
Prototypes are taking form, keep up the good work everyone!
A picture of people eating and drinking, gathered around tables. On the tables there are stacks of pizzas.
Plenty of conversations have been going on during lunch. Some serious, some less, but it's a very light hearted hackathon. Community first!
A drawing of a crate of pizza with Famedly's logo on it
A picture of people gathering around a stack of pizzas and talking.
Not only do we have drinks, Famedly is also graciously sponsoring our lunch. And what better meal than pizzas to get more hacker brain juice?
A picture of a man scanning a Spezi bottle with a barcode scanner
A drawing of fresh drinks next to the Famedly logo
Thanks to our sponsor Famedly, people at the hackathon can get refreshed. We even get to play with a fancy bar code scanner!
A drawing of people forming groups and having ideas to work on topics. There is a progress bar at the bottom sitting at 10%.
The Hackathon is making progress, people have formed teams! Integrations, Spec, Custom Emojis, Encrypted Search... there are plenty of ideas flying around!
Our FOSDEM Hackathon begins! Couldn't make it? Joins us at 17:00 CET on YouTube for a Matrix Live, actually Live from Brussels, and discover what attendees created or struggled with!
youtube.com/live/U_Ydrcr...
ROOST will be showcasing Osprey at FOSDEM on the The Matrix.org Foundation track, and we’re excited to welcome them as a user and to our community.
Meet Osprey V1.0, a new open source online safety tool designed to help platforms investigate and address their priority threats at scale, without sacrificing data privacy or performance. roost.tools/blog/introdu...
Famedly was the first approved TI Messenger. Built on Matrix, it enables faster and secure communication for healthcare professionals, with a delightful user experience.
famedly.de
@element.io provides secure, sovereign communication tools built on Matrix. Because of their commitment to open source and the commercial support Element provides, their solutions are widely deployed in the European public sector.
element.io
A warm thank you to our sponsors @element.io and Famedly for enabling us to set up Hackathon tomorrow, in Brussels! Can't make it? We will livestream the results at 17:00 CET!
matrix.org/blog/2025/12...
A new Rust-SDK- and Kotlin-based SchildiChat for the Desktop, registration tokens and moderation integration in continuwuity, and Matrix at FOSDEM - this and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2026/01...
A great feature when using Matrix: there's a setting that only allows users who you have manually verified (preferably face to face, scanning each other's QR codes) to see your encrypted messages in a group chat. Way to go @matrix.org!
the thing which determines the resource usage is the size of the rooms the server joins. if one of your users joins a big public chatroom with 100k users in it then that will start chewing ram, bandwidth and db. if the 12 users only talk to combinations of each other then it will be tiny resources.
