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We've lined up some awesome guests for the next 3 episodes of #ThunderCast:

Episode 2: Mike Conley of #Mozilla, a software mechanic who works on #Firefox desktop.

Episode 3: Mike Saunders, who does marketing and community outreach for @libreoffice.

Episode 4: Thib Martin @thibaultamartin, a GNOME Foundation Board member who also has a special talent for making people love @matrix.

Get subscribed, some great conversations are coming!

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/thundercast-1-origin-stories/

#Matrix #Podcast #Thunderbird

Just set up a Sliding Sync proxy for my @matrix homeserver so I can use the next generation Element iOS client. Was super easy and wow the new client is not just amazingly fast, from loading content but also decrypting messages, but also has a nice UI and UX. It's under active development and available via TestFlight and boy it's fun to use already :)

Check out their YouTube to see what they've been up to and what's next. FOSDEM was packed with cool talks & demos. https://youtu.be/5iIs1zWuVOU

If you're using a @matrix client, you can chat with me and others about #Fedigardens with the new room I launched!

The address is #fedigardens:one.ems.host.

For those in my Slack workspace, you don't need to do anything; it's already bridged automatically.

I really admire how @matrix continues to get better & am surprised that folks still insist on using a closed & corporate owned platform like Keybase...

The @EclipseFdn is trying out @matrix as a chat service: https://chat-staging.eclipse.org/docs/

Your chance to take a look, try it out, and provide some feedback!

The EU has created a unique opportunity for users of one of the most important and privacy sensitive online ecosystems to regain freedom of choice and sovereignty over their data.

More about this in
@matrix founder @matthew's blog post about a recent EU workshop: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/03/15/the-dma-stakeholder-workshop-interoperability-between-messaging-services

#matrix #mimi #dma

Irony: That this is in the square outside the HQ of the BBC.

The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

KDE's NeoChat is getting quite close to be my daily driver graphical @matrix client

If Meta is really working on a new ActivityPub-powered social network, I see it as a very positive signal overall--my personal feelings towards Meta notwithstanding. For one, it's validation for our entire ecosystem from the biggest player. It also tells me that they don't see themselves as strong enough to keep users locked inside their walled garden anymore. It means the tide is really turning for interoperable social media, and that's always been the goal.

Congrats to #matrix co-founder @matthew for rocking the last #DMAWorkshop, there was still quite a bit of buzz about how the live bridging demo carried a ton of weight, despite the lobbying efforts from #Meta, you can see it at around 14:00 in the live stream recording https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-workshop-2023-02-27

#matrix and @matthew in one of the largest German newspapers!!

I wrote a bit about my experience in Brussels attending a workshop from the European Commission and representing @kde and @neochat, in case this interest anyone :)

https://carlschwan.eu/2023/03/02/digial-market-act-workshop-in-brussels/ #DMAWorkshop