It's official - @RocketChat@twitter.com now speaks Matrix!! ???????????????????????? Incredibly exciting to see an existing flagship FOSS communication platform independently select Matrix for secure, decentralised interoperability - read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/30/welcoming-rocket-chat-to-matrix. Who's next?! :D
It's been an amazing week for Mastodon! Our network has gained 141K active users this week, and 176K this month; our iOS/Android apps have risen through the ranks on the app stores, and the EU launched their own Mastodon server!
The Big Stuff:- Spaces Toolbar- New Address Book- Link Preview Cards- Account Setup Hub- Matrix Support (Preliminary)- Import/Export- Message Header Redesign
The traffic caused by these distributed spam attacks is currently causing federation delays for servers which are participating in a targeted room; we are working on a performance fix for Synapse to address this.
IMPORTANT: We're seeing a large scale attempt to bulk-register bot accounts across the public Matrix network (including captcha bypass) in order to perform spam flood attacks. If you're running a public homeserver please disable open registration, or require email for signups.
It's Synapse release day, and v1.29.0 has arrived! Mostly behind-the-scenes improvements in this one, but a few nice new configuration options for admins of federated homeservers. Read all about it on the Matrix Blog: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/03/08/synapse-1-29-0-released
NeoChat, KDE's native Matrix chat client, is out and comes with a new login page that detects the server configuration from your ID, stickers, message editing, and much more. Check out all that's new at https://carlschwan.eu/2021/02/23/neochat-1.1/
Want all the gory details of how we hosted the world's largest free/open source conference #FOSDEM21 via Matrix? We just posted the full writeup at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix. Huge thanks to @FOSDEM@twitter.com for putting their faith in Matrix & to everyone who helped make it a success! ????❄️????
And the features integrated in @matrixdotorg@twitter.com platform are amazing. The more I use it the more proud I am of tech people that still believe that communication should be distributed instead of centralized under proprietary and insecure protocols. Support it! https://matrix.org/faq/#how-is-matrixorg-funded
Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
Welcome to Element! We’ve renamed @RiotChat@twitter.com, @NewVectorHQ@twitter.com and @ModularIM@twitter.com as Element and we’re ready to bring decentralised communication to the masses with @matrixdotorg@twitter.com!! Read all about it at https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element ????️???