Post #767950
2026-03-25 10:04 UTC
💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform!
🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons.
https://element.io/blog/governments-need-to-adopt-matrix-responsibly/
Replies (3)
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@Enea90@mastodon.social 2026-03-25 10:16
@element 🖤💛♥️
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@Yonggan@iceshrimp.de 2026-03-25 10:30
@element I think as long it isnt easily possible to move my account to another matrix server, matrix also has vendor lockin
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@SamuelCo@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 03:23
@element Hello, I agree that upstream development needs to be supported and maintained. I think the choice of a government to keep a project entirely in-house is logical, on a nation-state level there are due diligence considerations that can be far reaching(security clearances, espionage, locality, etc). Imho the value of government adoption far surpasses monitory funding (however necessary that might be for surviving capitalism), up-streaming of bugs found by security audits come to mind.