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We've been flooded with questions about the mandating open communication APIs for the tech giants (and seen some folks jumping to alarmingly incorrect assumptions), so we've put a quick tech FAQ together to summarise our understanding: matrix.org/blog/2022/03/30/tec

🍿 OTWSU live event on analytics and privacy this evening at 18:00 CEST!

@exodus will talk about trackers and how to track them

@e_mydata will tell us how customers can reclaim their digital dignity

Element will tell us how they balance analytics and privacy

📆 Today at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)

💬 Join the chat to ask questions to our guests at matrix.to/#/!AnacGSwlCZcUuAfcE

▶️ Watch it live on stream.matrix.org or on YouTube youtube.com/c/Matrixdotorg

🌐 Details on matrix.org/open-tech-will-save

RT @[email protected]

What's Coming in Thunderbird 102 (2022) 🧵:

The Big Stuff:
- Spaces Toolbar
- New Address Book
- Link Preview Cards
- Account Setup Hub
- Matrix Support (Preliminary)
- Import/Export
- Message Header Redesign

Let's look at each of these in depth.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/mozthunderbird/sta

RT @[email protected]

Another thoughtful take on legislation & messaging interoperability from @[email protected] of @[email protected]. It does seem like e2e challenges are hard to ignore, but there are lots of positives that shouldn't be dismissed.
matrix.org/blog/2022/03/29/how

🐦🔗: twitter.com/corintxt/status/15

RT @[email protected]

Adtech giant-owned entities suddenly expressing "concerns" for "privacy" now the EU has a political agreement to require messaging giants to do IOP on request by a non-gatekeeper platform is *chef kiss*

🐦🔗: twitter.com/riptari/status/150

So, the EU's says that the tech giants will have to expose open APIs for interoperable comms - but what does this actually mean in practice? Here are our initial thoughts on how you might actually implement it, and why the DMA is good news. ✨🔮✨ matrix.org/blog/2022/03/29/how

RT @[email protected]

Beeper now supports sending and receiving WhatsApp emoji reactions…before the feature has even been rolled out to WhatsApp iOS 😂

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ericmigi/status/15

🗞️ TWIM is out!

Multi-account support in Syphon, bubbles in SchildiChat, SSO in @g[email protected] 's Fractal Next, video calls in FluffyChat…

Matrix clients are blooming, and you can read about it in the latest issue of This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/thi

Lots of excitement today with confirmation of the EU's breakthrough legislation, mandating that big tech must provide documented open comms APIs. 🎉🎊😱 But there's also been concern that open APIs could undermine E2E encryption: our viewpoint is at matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/int

🎙️ Matrix Live time!

After having several guests telling us the Matrix protocol is really flexible, we wanted to explore how to add features to the Matrix Spec with Andrew, a Spec Core Team member.

Want to make Matrix even better? Here's how!

youtu.be/sRS618AbZ8I

Synapse 1.55 is out! Come read about what's new in this release, including changes with synctl and Mjolnir support, on our blog

matrix.org/blog/2022/03/22/syn

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Boris Johnson is being sent summaries of official Red Box govt business by WhatsApp

It’s just so unbelievably insecure. His phone number was exposed for a decade. It’s just as well he doesn’t know any ex-KGB spies, I guess

businessinsider.com/boris-john

🐦🔗: twitter.com/carolecadwalla/sta

Awesome to see @[email protected] building on Matrix! Let’s hope it won’t be a closed federation :)

RT @[email protected]

TeamSpeak 5 Servers will give you the option to host your very own Homebase. Homebase is the Server where your chat-account is created in. Nonetheless, you can still chat with other users that are located on other homebases via federation.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/teamspeak/status/1

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