Introducing premium accounts to fund the matrix.org homeserver
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Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
  • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    We have been communicating on the lack of funds in the Foundation for a while now, the latest being here. And whilst we’ve been working hard to gather new members and are happy to see the number of logos increasing (thank you all for seeing the need for Matrix to stay independent and safe, and the value in supporting it!), none of the big players in the ecosystem have actually committed to one of the higher membership tiers, so we need to find other ways towards sustainability.

    🤔

    Sounds like that business plan isn’t working out like you hoped…

    And/Or not enough users care to use your product.

    🤷‍♂️

    • nroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      The plan was to rely on donations, which doesn’t usually work for hosted products.

      • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        2 months ago

        😂

        Still need users. And folks who like/want/use the product enough to care to donate.

        If neither is happening, you’re business model is failing. Profit or nonprofit.

        🤷‍♂️

  • flux@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Wish the homeserver portability would be worked on more. The ability to change homeserver would really allow people to more easily move on from matrix.org.

    Myself included ;).

    Optimally it would even allow the switch “after the fact”, so after your original homeserver is down, assuming your client has a local copy of the server-side secret storage. It would need to be based on some cryptographic identity then, I suppose.

      • flux@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        It’s nice that this exists, but even for this I’d prefer to use an open source tool.

        And it of course helps with migration only if the old HS is still online…

        I think most practically this migration function would be built inside some Matrix client (one that would support more than one server to start with), but I suppose a standalone tool would be a decent solution as well.