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...

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...

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.

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...

QuadRadical ismaking steady progress on Nexus, MatMaul is hooking encrypted search into Element X... the prototypes are polishing up!

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!

Plenty of conversations have been going on during lunch. Some serious, some less, but it's a very light hearted hackathon. Community first!

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?

Thanks to our sponsor Famedly, people at the hackathon can get refreshed. We even get to play with a fancy bar code scanner!

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...

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!

This @fosdem.org talk about @matrix.org history is quite relevant today. EU organizations and companies being forced to take their tech sovereignty seriously is an opportunity to adopt shared OSS solutions. But it is hard for EU programs to distribute the money to reach the right upstream hands.

We will be migrating GodotSteam's community stuff off Discord, due to impending IPO, and onto Matrix and IRC. Find us on Matrix at: matrix.to#/#godotsteam... And IRC via Libera Chat: irc://irc.librea.chat/#godotsteam Our Discord community will shutdown early-to-mid March so get yourself migrated.

A new native macOS client, a funded roadmap for Draupnir, and a Matrix meetup planned in Tokyo – that and lots more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

A new member in the Foundation, server-wide anti-spam in continuwuity, and a matrixRTC-SDK... That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

A 39C3 debrief, getting ready for FOSDEM, and new developments in the Rust servers area. That and more happened over the year end holidays! matrix.org/blog/2026/01...

Going to FOSDEM? Matrix enthusiast? There will be plenty of opportunity to see us! Between the Decentralised Comm Devroom, our booth, and our hackathon, we will be here in full force! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Getting started in open source can be intimidating: everything is public! Don't go alone, take one of our mentors with you and start contributing to Matrix on 30 January, in HSBXL right before FOSDEM! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

You want to fix that one bug in your Matrix client, but didn't get a chance to dive into it? Participate in our Matrix Hackathon on 30 Jan in Brussels, and get help from our mentors to make your feature happen! Details and free registration on our blog matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

It’s the 2025 Matrix Holiday Special!! Come read all about what went right and what went wrong in 2025 and what the future holds for 2026. Thanks for flying Matrix, and happy holidays! 🎄☃️⛷️🦑 matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Missing a feature in Matrix? There's a rough edge you would like to file? Come join us and the mentors at the Matrix Hackathon on 30 January in Brussels, and take the matter in your hands with their help! 📌 HSBXL, Brussels 📆 30 Jan matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity...

New in open safety tools news, @matrix.org has released Policyserv!!! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

The Holiday Special Matrix Live, open sourcing the policy server, and a security release for ESS. This concludes This Week In Matrix for this year! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Important: We've just released a critical security update for ESS Community. Please update as soon as possible: github.com/element-hq/e.... ESS Classic and other Synapse installations are not affected.

We've just released Matrix spec v1.17 (hopefully our last release before v2.0!) including a few new MSCs and some exciting usability improvements for the spec website! Read about it in the blog post: matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Can we say we are truly digitally sovereign? @amandine.bsky.social tackles the question in the latest blog: europeanopensource.academy/news/achievi... Amandine Le Pape is also our first host of the #EOSAMasterclass series, "Building and Sustaining Open Source Impact": youtu.be/6Gt_VwvS9yw?...

Calls in Extera Next, Matrix helping users in Northern Virginia and Matrix meetups at CCC in Hamburg. This and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

@roost.tools isn't just openly licensing our tools, but also openly developing them. We just released an initial draft of the ROOST tooling roadmap, but it's just that -- a draft. If you're interested in OSS trust and safety tools, now's the time to shape what gets built! github.com/orgs/roostor...

📚️ Join us for a collaborative hackathon before FOSDEM! Our team of scientists created tools to help us fight Big Silo. But we need your help to unlock the crate they sent! Come learn, mentor, and contribute, and earn (sur)prizes! 📆 Jan 30 🗺️ HSBXL, Brussels matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

🧑‍🎨 Hackers, artists, project managers, writers wanted! Joins us as we fight against Big Silo in our Brussels hackathon right before FOSDEM. Come learn, contribute, and help our mighty scientists as we tinker our way to a free world. 📆 Jan 30 🗺️ HSBXL, Brussels matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Element X Android getting a boost, a hackathon right before FOSDEM, and a brand new Flutter client. That and much happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

⌨️ Don't miss your chance to team up with people and scratch your Matrix itch! We organize a hackathon on Fri 30 Jan in Brussels right before FOSDEM. Come help us save the Federation from Big Silo that wants to take over the world! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

🧑‍🏫 This year again, we will have a massive presence at FOSDEM! Between our hackathon on Friday, our booth during FOSDEM, and the Decentralised Comms Devroom on Sunday, you'll have plenty of opportunities to meet the team and get involved! matrix.org/blog/2025/12...

Hot off the press in TWIM! 🔥 🧯 The public hosted slack bridge is being retired, Draupnir gains previews for Policy Room Subscriptions, Synapse dropping Postgres 13 support. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! Check it out at matrix.org/blog/2025/11... !

Decentralization is more than code. It’s governance, resilience, and community. If you’re building something that empowers users, we want to hear from you at the Decentralised Communication devroom. Submit your proposal before Sunday night! fosdem.org/submit #FOSDEM #CommunityTech

Love building things that don’t rely on a single platform? So do we. Bring your ideas, your experiments, your victories (and failures!) to the Decentralised Communication devroom. Our CfP is open until the end of the week, be quick! fosdem.org/submit #FOSDEM #decentralization #standards

Developers, researchers, protocol nerds: the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM wants YOU! Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms? Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday! #FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation