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The Matrix protocol specification

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I love the concept behind the Matrix protocol, but I have zero faith in the Matrix Foundations ability to execute. Folks have been asking for financial tranparency for years…

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BrenBarn·Nov 20, 2025

It's kind of wild to me that they haven't prioritized this more. This issue has been open for almost exactly 6 years: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/565 . This one even longer: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/836 . The Matrix permission system still doesn't even have a way to say "sending images is not allowed" (either per room or per user).

In Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory

heinrich5991·Oct 20, 2025

It's less encrypted. E.g. you'd think that emoji reactions are end-to-end-encrypted (as they are in Signal). But they aren't[1]. I expect similar implementation issues wrt. the encryption in Matrix. [1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/660

In Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights

Arathorn·Apr 2, 2025

That's .well-known based delegation, which was proposed in MSC1708 in Nov 2017: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/old... and merged into the spec in Jan 2019 (prior to Matrix 1.0 in June 2019): https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/commit/0347e873efc... So yes, fully-baked and part of Matrix since 1.0! Next Gen Auth via OIDC is instead a key part of the (upcoming) Matrix 2.0 spec release - see https://areweoidcyet.com and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/386...

In Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS

ensignavenger·Feb 20, 2025Recommendation phrase

I love the concept behind the Matrix protocol, but I have zero faith in the Matrix Foundations ability to execute. Folks have been asking for financial tranparency for years now (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/571#issueco...). And all that we get are posts like this complainging about not having enough money and threatening to shut things down, repeatedly. Maybe if they were more open and transparent, folks could help get them on the right track, either by making recomendations to improve, volunteering to help with things, or contributeing financially. I really want them to succeed, but this has been going on for years now.

In Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K