Congratulations to @tobias, one of the NeoChat maintainers, and to all the other successful candidates on being elected to the Matrix Governance Board! 🎉
Earlier this year, I was invited for an interview to represent the Dutch Green Party in the upcoming EU elections. Unfortunately, I did not make it on the ballot. 🗳
Yesterday, I received the good news yesterday that the community has elected me for the Governing Board of the Matrix Foundation! 🎉 I am very grateful for everyone who voted for me, and I will do my best to help Matrix become the standard protocol for instant communication. ❤️
We did it, folks! Matrix has hit a new milestone in its open governance by electing a Governing Board to guide the Foundation and provide more representative and structured input to the evolution of the protocol.
Of course, while seating a Governing Board is a big deal, the hardest work remains ahead of us. I have high hopes for what we will accomplish together! 🚀 https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/election-results/
Just a few days until the voting period closes in our Governing Board elections!
We're at or near 100% voter turnout in many categories, but Individual Member turnout is much lower. Check your inbox for an email from noreply@opavote.com and cast your ballot today 🗳 https://matrix.org/governing-board/elections/2024/
It’s so difficult (and expensive) to run a #Matrix#Synapse server for my own domain. Is it worth it?
I started out wanting to support Matrix, and I've set up a number of channels for my community on Matrix, but everything happens on Discord and IRC right now, and we have a bridge between Discord and IRC, but we can't bridge to Matrix at the moment, so is it even worth it to keep maintaining a separate Matrix presence?
If not, I’m just gonna shut it down. I don’t want to spend the money.
Those of you who use #Matrix - should I be using the Android app Element, or Element X?
I just want text based comms in the #EMFCamp channel. I'm not fussed about anything else.
The Element website recommends Element. But their GitHub seems to recommend Element X. And, frankly, I don't understand why I'd want one over the other.
If you donated to #matrix regularly and over a certain sum, you are eligible to vote in the current foundation board election!
You should have gotten an email from opavote with a link. Make sure you use your chance to vote, if you want to! You may need to check whatever email was connected to your donations.
anyone using #beeper? how do you like it? how's their storage of credentials? that's the only bit that really makes me nervous.
i'm also curious how well #matrix works for it. my general experience with matrix as an end user with "normal" people has been overall terrible, even with great projects like @element
Zawsze, ale to zawsze jest tak samo... Z każdym serwisem prowadzonym nie dla ludzi, a jedynie dla zysku... #zgównienie#enshittification
"Użytkownicy #Slack-a są przerażeni, gdy odkrywają wiadomości używane do szkolenia AI. Slack w obliczu ostrej reakcji twierdzi, że zmiany polityki są nieuchronne."
Likely a result of recent Slack shenanigans, the pressure on the matrix.org server is a good reminder of why I should just run my own #matrix instance. It also just adds to my appreciation of how much nicer it is to run and use #xmpp.
You know who will never mine your private communications to train an LLM?
Better yet, you know whose words you don't need to trust, because you aren't obligated to use any particular server? And the software is open source? And regularly audited by security researchers?
Matrix.
It's not perfect, but no tool is. It's a matter of what trade offs you're willing to accept. Just sayin' ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Anyone else experiencing severe service outages on matrix.org currently and during the last week?
My and my friend's account don't function at all and at @matrix I see only posts about their elections lately ...