Matthew Hodgson

Goodbye #Zoom - Hello #MatrixRTC check out #matrixconf - the schedule is 🔥

Ready to discover what's happening around #Matrix this year? Don't miss Matrix co-founder @arathorn.net in the annual Matrix State of the Union, kicking off #MatrixConf! cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe...

I've been roped into running a half-marathon (marathorn?) around Oxford weekend after next: I'm running for Macmillan cancer support, who are a very worthy cause. If anyone wished to sponsor me it would be very much appreciated! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/... :)

@arathorn.net will be speedrunning an updated version of the "P2P Matrix: A New Hope" talk from #dwebcamp tomorrow - if you want to hear all about the new wave P2P work happening in Matrix, now's your chance!

@arathorn.net, @matrix.org co-founder and @element.io CEO/CTO, is coming to DWeb Camp to present “Peer-to-Peer Matrix: A New Hope” We’ll have many more Matrix-related activities and talks! 🤩 💡 Check them out here

We're excited to have Andy Piper @andypiper.me join the team at The Matrix Foundation. 🎉 Andy is our Senior Developer Relations Engineer, working to support & encourage the broader Matrix ecosystem. You can expect to see them around the community over the coming weeks. Please offer a warm welcome!

This is massive for the future of un-enshittified Social Media in Europe. Atmosphere ❤️ Fediverse ❤️ Matrix

🥁 The Matrix.org Foundation has published its first Public Annual Report! 📊 👀 Have a peek into our day-to-day and check out what we’ve been working on in 2025. It also includes a report of our finances and the plan for 2026! Enjoy! ➡️ The blog: matrix.org/blog/2026/03...

Our analysis of reported issues in vodozemac: matrix.org/blog/2026/02...

💬 When chat history matters most As limits hit free self-hosted tools, more teams are turning to ESS Community - our free, open-source Matrix distribution. ✔️ Unlimited history ✔️ Voice & video ✔️ E2EE ✔️ Open & sovereign by design Built on Matrix, with advanced org controls available in ESS Pro👇

I speak next week about our work to add E2EE DMs in Bluesky using the Matrix protocol. The event will be live streamed by the Matrix conference. cfp.2025.matrix.org/matrix-conf-... We will launch a Bluesky service using this technology soon. @arathorn.net @kurtopsahl.bsky.social @micahflee.com

🚀 We’re pleased to showcase the work of our summer intern, Skye, who made a big impact with their work on encrypted state events. The blog post breaks down the project in detail. element.io/blog/hiding-...

This was the most fun i'd had in ages :D

We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08... and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.

Project Aurora, the EU adopting Matrix for cybersecurity crisis management, and significant improvements in the rust SDK thanks to DINUM's HackDays. That and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/06...

How do you manage group chats in a messaging app? Use our identity management and group access controls to synchronise with sources such as Microsoft Active Directory. Element gives governments a consumer-style messaging app, but with enterprise-grade control. element.io/blog/how-ele...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC. More details about the impact for your on our blog. matrix.org/blog/2025/04...

Welcome to the Wild West of consumer messaging apps within governments. It’s not a one off. It’s not just the Trump administration. Governments have to put a serious alternative in place, combining the usability and E2EE of messaging apps with enterprise-grade oversight and control.

Matrix provides an open network for secure, decentralized communication. At FOSDEM 2025, Matrix project lead Matthew Hodgson discussed the history of Matrix, its missteps in chasing mainstream adoption, its current status, and some of the wishlist features for taking Matrix into the mainstream.

@matrix.org has gone from $0 to $561K in recurring revenue in just 2 years. But our expenses run $1.2M/yr. We've burned through reserves and are at a crossroads. YOU have a role to play in shaping what happens next: matrix.org/blog/2025/02... #Matrix #IndieWeb #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #Security

⚠️ If you’re running an outdated version of Synapse, you’re putting your organisation at risk. 🚨 Version 1.98.0 of Synapse (or older) exposes you to critical vulnerabilities, compliance failures and security risks. 🔐 Get up to date.

The world needs secure comms as a bulwark against authoritarianism and oppression. Matrix seeks to meet that need, as a decentralised, encrypted protocol. But Trust & Safety is difficult in a decentralised environment. How are we building a safer Matrix?

Missed FOSDEM, and you want to know how Matrix got where it is right now, where it succeeded, where it fell short, and what's remaining on the Road to Mainstream Matrix? @arathorn.net has your back!

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@arathorn.net enthuses about the twisty twisty path to Mainstream Matrix in Janson at #FOSDEM today! Thanks to everyone who came or tuned in!

Very honored to receive the Business & Impact Award at #EOSA2025 & join the European Open Source Academy as the Business & Impact section lead! Thank you @eosa.bsky.social & thank you Mitchell Baker for the kind words! Looking fwd to raise OS awareness & help orgs support the ecosystem better!

Looking forward to a busy Sunday at @fosdem.bsky.social with @arathorn.net delivering ‘The Road to Mainstream Matrix’ at 12pm, followed by ‘Matrix State of the Union’ together with @amandine.bsky.social at 1pm. Check out the full list of @matrix.org track talks: fosdem.org/2025/schedul... [1/3]

2024 was a banner year for Matrix, from Matrix 2.0 progress and Trust & Safety improvements, to operationalizing open governance and hosting the first Matrix Conference. From all of us to you, merry merry and a happy new year ✨

It's the last spec release of 2024! 🎉 Matrix 1.13 has even more Trust & Safety features for you. Account Suspension, new reporting endpoints, fixes to existing endpoints, and not-T&S features like EDUs to appservices! Details on the blog:

Computer Weekly highlights the irony of UK OSA and EU Chat Control pushing for E2EE backdoors... ...while the US urges people into E2EE apps because #SaltTyphoon has exploited backdoors to compromise the US' entire public telephone network. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666169...

US senators urge @deptofdefense.bsky.social to expand the use of the @matrix.org open standard in light of the #SaltTyphoon attack on the US telephone network.

Gizmodo: FBI Warns Americans to Start Using Encrypted Messaging Apps Yet another reason I love using Matrix/Element. gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-am... #matrix #encryption

A bit of a random one, but: do I know anyone at the UK Environment Agency? They seem intent on trying to destroy 150 years of history by selling off Shiplake Island to the highest bidder; incredibly depressing stuff www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (cc @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social who i once met there)

A Bluesky bridge, encrypted rooms support for Hookshot, and the Sharing Extensions back in Element X iOS. That, and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

i want to clone myself so i can play with my TARDIS without feeling guilty

Frozen blue skies over Chiswick, tech capital of the world

Want to know more about Simplified Sliding Sync? Check out Ivan’s blogpost and talk from The Matrix Conference - along with other highlights! mnt.io/articles/sli...

better late than never: i made a balrog

The launch of Element X at @matrix.org Conference got a great reaction 🎉 Element X is the mobile app that almost all Element users should be using; both in the workplace and for personal use. Download it from your app store!📱 Take a look here: element.io/blog/deep-di...

It's official - Matrix 2.0 implementations are here and ready for mainstream use! 🎉🥳🎊 Come watch the keynote from The Matrix Conference and learn about the joy of instant sync ⚡️, next-gen auth 🔐, native VoIP 🎦 and Invisible Crypto 👻: matrix.org/blog/2024/10...

bah - just missed double digits :) should have played with ADX sooner.

My anaglyph 3D version of #BBCMicro Elite is progressing nicely. Here's a 3D view of various ships, with some close and some far away. I just added a parallax effect, which makes a real difference. If you have a pair of 3D spex (with red in the left eye and cyan in the right), then give it a go!

Last call for votes in our Governing Board elections! 🗳 A lot of people worked hard to advocate for and implement more open governance for the Matrix ecosystem – don't let your ballot go unused. Results will be announced on Monday!

Our newest paper, “Logical Clocks and Monotonicity for Byzantine-Tolerant Replicated Data Types”, is now available under CC-BY: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... We formalize @matrix.org and other autonomous decentralized systems based on hash chronicles to verify monotonicity and Byzantine fault tolerance

🤨 there may be some underestimation here of how hard a decentralised E2EE msging protocol is. would be good to collaborate rather than duplicate :)

@pfrazee.com heya - qq: what was the rationale for MIT for social-app? (am intrigued that AGPL seems to have worked for mastodon cf boehs.org/node/truth-s...)

Open source infrastructure *must* be a publicly funded service, and funders need to support maintenance – not just new feature development This is on our minds this week in the wake of the xz news, and as we seek funding to support Matrix. Read the latest from project lead, @arathorn.net:

Today we launch a new fundraiser, talk about the scope of the Foundation's work, and begin to unpack our emerging roadmap for the future 🚀 There is a lot going on and we need your help to keep it going!