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It is my understanding that a lot of EU governments are setting up their own matrix servers.

by galbar 6mo ago

Arathorn 6mo ago
This is true. We just published a map of it: https://element.io/en/matrix-in-europe https://element.io/en/matrix-in-europe
- wolvoleo 6mo ago
  Question, with so many major orgs using it, are there no plans for manual status? The one thing I miss vis-a-vis teams is the ability to manually set myself away, appear offline, busy etc. Matrix shows me as active (green dot) when I have the client open but there's no way to override that. At least none that I found. I'm a bit surprised all these big governmental clients didn't ask for such a feature :)
  - Arathorn 6mo ago
    There's a big gap between lots of orgs using it, and lots of orgs paying for development of it. That said, BWI in Germany is currently funding custom status so it should be coming soon :)
    - wolvoleo 6mo ago
      Ohh nice to hear it's coming. But sorry that they are not contributing. That's pretty bad tbh.
- xethos 6mo ago
  Clicking through and stumbling upon Croatia, which specifies only "Classified deployment", has left me absolutely cackeling. Seems hilarious that they're willing to say that they use it, but unwilling to state if it's for early testing, civilian-level beaurocracy, or Croatia's equivalent of specialized armed forces. That they publicly use it at all is great though, as it likely helps shift the Overton window of what's normal, and what fits standard useage of Matrix-Synapse
  - DarkUranium 6mo ago
    I hope they don't, considering Matrix's handling of security is on the level of a bumbling toddler.
    - Arathorn 6mo ago
      If you're talking about https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/analysis-of-reported-issues-in-vodozemac https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/analysis-of-reported-issues-..., I'm not entirely sure that characterisation is accurate :)
  - Arathorn 6mo ago
    It's more that they haven't gone public with it yet, and it's not for us to out them :)

It is my understanding that a lot of EU governments are setting up their own matrix servers.

by galbar 6mo ago

It is my understanding that a lot of EU governments are setting up their own matrix servers.

This is true. We just published a map of it: https://element.io/en/matrix-in-europe https://element.io/en/matrix-in-europe

wolvoleo 6mo ago
Question, with so many major orgs using it, are there no plans for manual status? The one thing I miss vis-a-vis teams is the ability to manually set myself away, appear offline, busy etc. Matrix shows me as active (green dot) when I have the client open but there's no way to override that. At least none that I found. I'm a bit surprised all these big governmental clients didn't ask for such a feature :)
- Arathorn 6mo ago
  There's a big gap between lots of orgs using it, and lots of orgs paying for development of it. That said, BWI in Germany is currently funding custom status so it should be coming soon :)
  - wolvoleo 6mo ago
    Ohh nice to hear it's coming. But sorry that they are not contributing. That's pretty bad tbh.
xethos 6mo ago
Clicking through and stumbling upon Croatia, which specifies only "Classified deployment", has left me absolutely cackeling. Seems hilarious that they're willing to say that they use it, but unwilling to state if it's for early testing, civilian-level beaurocracy, or Croatia's equivalent of specialized armed forces. That they publicly use it at all is great though, as it likely helps shift the Overton window of what's normal, and what fits standard useage of Matrix-Synapse
- DarkUranium 6mo ago
  I hope they don't, considering Matrix's handling of security is on the level of a bumbling toddler.
  - Arathorn 6mo ago
    If you're talking about https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/analysis-of-reported-issues-in-vodozemac https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/analysis-of-reported-issues-..., I'm not entirely sure that characterisation is accurate :)
- Arathorn 6mo ago
  It's more that they haven't gone public with it yet, and it's not for us to out them :)