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
@spaetz@mas.to Oof, that’s tough! We are so grateful for your advocacy.
This is definitely a sign of the work we need to do to increase awareness! As we get the Foundation more fully operationalized we hope to provide some materials to help introduce more folks to Matrix.
We’re encouraged to see universities like TU Dresden and MIT running their own Matrix homeservers and want to help encourage more of that 🚀
@maybeanerd@bumscode.com Oh thanks for asking! Yes, it appears the author here (hi that’s me, Josh) got ahead of himself – thought only the Signal client was open source, but indeed both server and client are open source.
So we’re #2 in FOSS and #1 in decentralized. We’ll revise accordingly!
@oceane @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social You can learn some more about the relationship between the two in this blog post from our Managing Director: https://matrix.org/blog/2023/10/26/hello-world/
New Vector/Element does have outsized influence as the company founded by folks who created Matrix, and as the #1 contributor to upstream, but the Foundation’s job is to be vendor neutral and a fiercely independent steward as one would hope to see with any FOSS foundation.
We are happy to answer any questions you may have.