At #disruptedtimes22, Jon Crowcroft praises #federation and talks about @[email protected] - where you can run your own services or choose whom you trust.
We've been flooded with questions about the #DMA 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: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/30/technical-faq-on-the-digital-markets-act
🍿 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 https://matrix.to/#/!AnacGSwlCZcUuAfcEU:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=bpulse.org&via=uhoreg.ca
▶️ Watch it live on https://stream.matrix.org or on YouTube https://youtube.com/c/Matrixdotorg
🌐 Details on https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/
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.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mozthunderbird/status/1508662578360188929
Another thoughtful take on #DMA 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.
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/29/how-do-you-implement-interoperability-in-a-dma-world
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*
So, the EU's #DMA 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. ✨🔮✨ https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/29/how-do-you-implement-interoperability-in-a-dma-world
Streaming #Rust #Matrix in 3 minutes on https://andybalaam.uk.to (Owncast) or https://twitch.tv/andybalaam
Beeper now supports sending and receiving WhatsApp emoji reactions…before the feature has even been rolled out to WhatsApp iOS 😂
🗞️ 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!
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/this-week-in-matrix-2022-03-25
Lots of excitement today with confirmation of the EU's breakthrough #DMA 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 https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/interoperability-without-sacrificing-privacy-matrix-and-the-dma
🎙️ 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!
Concurrence : un règlement européen « historique » pour encadrer les géants du numérique - Par @[email protected] via @[email protected]
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/03/25/concurrence-un-reglement-europeen-historique-pour-encadrer-les-geants-du-numerique_6119091_3234.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LeMondeEcoEnt/status/1507288062350483460
🍿 Open Tech Will Save Us is next Wednesday!
📆 30th March 2022 - 18:00 CEST
💬https://matrix.to/#/#otwsu:matrix.org
🗒️ https://matrix.org/open-tech-will-save-us/
Interop for messaging including group chat seem to have made it into the #DMA 🙌👏🎉 https://twitter.com/BertuzLuca/status/1507073877360484362
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AmandineLePape/status/1507086497299812368
Synapse 1.55 is out! Come read about what's new in this release, including changes with synctl and Mjolnir support, on our blog
Now in six locations, with more coming online thanks to UA ISPs who are often donating these machines! https://twitter.com/eQualitie/status/1506696893560147977
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CenoBrowser/status/1506697297605836812
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
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-receives-daily-government-memos-via-whatsapp-2022-3
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1506371809284956165
Awesome to see @[email protected] building on Matrix! Let’s hope it won’t be a closed federation :)
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.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/teamspeak/status/1506265033579405313
A few hours left before the conversation on #Interoperability & #DigitalPublicSpace kicks off. Come join the discussion on policy debates & bigger vision for interoperable internet: https://openfuture.eu/event/a-conversation-about-interoperability-and-building-digital-public-spaces/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OpenFutureEU/status/1506213258994364416
Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications. The Matrix.org Foundation exists to act as a neutral custodian for Matrix and to nurture it as efficiently as possible as a single unfragmented standard.
📣 We're currently seeking individual and organizational members to fund our work: https://matrix.org/membership