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matrix-org / matrix-appservice-bridge

matrix-appservice-bridge

Bridging infrastructure for Application Services

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187GitHub stars
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What it is

Bridging infrastructure for Application Services

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:27:21 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-09-26 06:57:45 UTC to 2022-09-19 18:49:31 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Arathorn·Aug 11, 2016
hopefully Matrix avoids falling into the cliché of xkcd 927 by focusing on defragmenting the existing silos - building a metanetwork between IRC, Slack, XMPP, etc etc. So rather than saying "hey everyone, throw away your current stuff", we say "hey everyone, build a bridge into Matrix - it's fun and easy (100 LOC for the slack bridge: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/.... If you want to use Matrix natively via weechat or whatever then so much the better, but the intention is to be useful as way more than just another msging protocol. It's meant to more be a big open decentralised database for conversations and other realtime data - more in common with IPFS or even the Web itself. [disclaimer: I work on Matrix] [p.s: can someone work out how to send Matrix $5 every time someone quotes xkcd 927 at us...?]
In Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Arathorn·Jul 8, 2016
Enabling interoperable chat to non-nerdy friends is basically Matrix's raison d'être. We're not there yet (see https://matrix.org/blog/2016/07/04/the-matrix-summer-special... for the current status), but if we don't provide it we will have failed in the whole mission to defragment these silos, letting users choose which service to trust without losing interoperability. The good news is that the Olm end-to-end cryptographic ratchet that Matrix is in the process of deploying (https://matrix.org/git/olm) is built using the same algorithms as Signal Protocol's ratchet (although it's an independent implementation) - so we're hopeful that at least technically the window is open in future for using Matrix to defragment all the services who have adopted Signal Protocol (WhatsApp, Google Allo, FB Messenger, Signal itself etc) without compromising
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the E2E privacy. Right now this is total sci-fi, and won't likely happen (whilst preserving E2E crypto) without cooperation from FB, Google etc. However, we hope to get Matrix to the point where they see that the longer term benefits of participating in a healthy open ecosystem outweigh the short term benefits of trying to lock users into a silo - just as email eventually interoperated over the early internet. That's a while off, but this is still the goal. The best way to make sure this happens is to play with Matrix in its current form, and help us write bridges (e.g. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/...) to interface as many silos as possible into Matrix. The more bridges, the more useful Matrix is, and the higher the chance of building an ecosystem which eventually Google, FB and friends will find attractive.
In Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol

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