Matrix.org @[email protected]

The government wants to get in your DMs.

The #OnlineSafetyBill will make messaging apps scan what you're saying and what images you're sharing before they get encrypted. It unlocks your privacy.

Email your MP (UK) today: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

#BlockTheBill #PrivacyIsOnlineSafety #privacy #freedomofexpression

Fedifolks, you're here so it means at some point you had to pick an instance.

I would like to make an instance picker (à la joinmastodon.org) for the @matrix website.

What were the important parameters for you when picking an instance? Language? Terms & Conditions? Code of Conduct? Age of the instance? Patch level of the instance? Structure running the instance?

In other words: how did you decide who to trust (or not) with your identity?

🔄 Boosts/retoots/reblogs welcome!

The blue bird seems to be going bonkers, and its new owner believes that hardcore coders are the solution all issues, including moderation.

But can moderation be automated? Can it be apolitical? Does it work on decentralised systems like Mastodon, and how does it scale?

Come and ask questions to our guest today Nov 30 at 18:00 CET to find out what the hell is happening on platforms these days.

⬇️ How to watch & chat ⬇️

https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/

This is probably worth repeating regularly: open source is about making your problem upstream's problem.

If you do not support said upstream, it will quickly become your problem again.

Invest on your own future. Reduce your long term costs. Support your upstream.

Live in 30 minutes: live coding #Rust for #Matrix: adopting an existing device in our example bot.

https://andybalaam.uk.to/
#owncast

(Also on Twitch)

I put together a basic proof of concept for using existing #Mastodon installations as SSO for #Matrix, using #Synapse. Here's what the authentication and authorization flow for that looks like!

While Mastodon doesn't support #OpenlD Connect, OIDC is just OpenlD on top of OAuth2.0. If your app allows configuring all URLS for your ldP you can use nearly any OAuth2.0 provider.

Avatars currently aren't supported via this (| added one) but can be! Working on a patch for Synapse!

PSA: Support open standards in tech. Otherwise you'll get locked into ecosystems that abuse you. Thank you - that is all.

@hrheingold

Currently 452 of us in the "Mastodon Administrators" @matrix channel. Also a side channel for moderation specific stuff.

https://matrix.to/#/!VMUpuubSCTxMbZkuZa:cybre.space

I've blogged about the end-to-end encryption work in NeoChat but entirely forgot to tell people about it so... here it is https://tobiasfella.de/posts/neochat-e2ee/

For those of you on @matrix there's now a fledgling #ocaml space on either #ocaml:recoil.org or #ocaml:roscidus.com which has channels for Eio and MirageOS to start with. Thanks @talex5!

It's been less than 24 hours and #mastodon is already extremely fun to use, thanks in large part to the welcoming community out here.

If anyone has a line on an #activitypub <==> #matrix bridge though, I might be interested in hosting it on t2bot.io (or building my own, eventually) 😇

Heading to @capitoledulibre for a @matrix workshop about everything Matrix at 10:30 CET, and a talk on how to create a cozy and safe nest for your community at 15:30 CET

Come talk Matrix with us!

I suppose I should do an actual #introduction post instead of just saying hello 😅

I'm based out of Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 as a @matrix Spec Core Team (SCT) member, help keep a local makerspace open, run t2bot.io, and build completely unnecessary A/V racks for events I volunteer at (which I'll probably end up posting about).

With the spare time I have left (none), I collect/play #magicthegathering and start software projects I'll definitely maybe finish one day, probably.