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Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat (matrix.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today we are sorry to announce that we are not able to bring the Libera Chat bridge back online. We have already begun working through clean up tasks, such as clearing ghosts, and expect to be done by December 22. If you see any bridge artifacts left past that point, please let us know.

We at the Matrix.org Foundation have been working behind the scenes for months with the team at Element who operated the bridge and our peers at Libera Chat. Our hope had been to address the issues that were raised about the bridge to the satisfaction of Libera and to quickly bring it back online, but ultimately the Foundation is only a facilitator in the process and does not have the resources to maintain and operate the bridge itself.

Long term, the Foundation’s hope is to have the resources to service its core programs as well as provide additional community services like bridge maintenance and operations. However, as an open source foundation that is still early in its journey, we must be realistic about our capacity and make hard choices about where we put our scarce resources.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sad but necessary. I like the fact that this doesn’t exclude IRC from matrix as anybody could setup a bridge. This is what make matrix special: it’s openness and decentralization from ground up.