Following up on our Crossroads blog post we’re giving an update on bridges. The Foundation indeed can’t afford to keep maintaining the bridges anymore and needs to focus its very little resources on its core missions.
Element manifested their interest in helping us keep the following public instances of the bridges online.
| Instance | Platform | Project |
|---|---|---|
| OFTC | IRC | matrix-appservice-irc |
| Snoonet | IRC | matrix-appservice-irc |
| Slack | Slack | matrix-appservice-slack |
| Bifrost | XMPP | matrix-bifrost |
We’re grateful to Element for sponsoring the bridges and keeping them online for the thousands of users who rely on them. Since Element already supports us in many areas, we keep actively looking for additional sponsors to help us grow more independent. You can find ways to support us on our website, the most impactful one being to join us as a member.
In short: nothing changes from the user perspective, the bridges remain online. People, communities and organizations who want to deploy their own bridge regardless can do so by going to https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/ and deploying their own instance.
The Foundation needs you
The Matrix.org Foundation is a non-profit and only relies on donations to operate. Its core mission is to maintain the Matrix Specification, but it does much more than that.
It maintains the matrix.org homeserver and hosts several bridges for free. It fights for our collective rights to digital privacy and dignity.
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