The latest Signal & WhatsApp breaches targeting German & Dutch officials show the risks of using consumer apps in government.
❌ As European governments pursue digitally sovereign strategies, they should ban the use of consumer apps for government-related conversations.
At @fosdem.org, @neilj.bsky.social shared why sustainability is essential for open source and decentralised networks like @matrix.org.
🌱 We support by investing in independent governance, keeping core functionality open source, and lowering the barrier to adoption with ESS Community and Element X.
🎙️ MatrixRTC at @fosdem.org 2026
Members of Element’s VoIP team shared a deep dive into MatrixRTC, the framework bringing real time communication natively into @matrix.org rooms.
🚀 MatrixRTC goes beyond 1:1 calls to enable scalable voice, video, games, and other live, interactive experiences.
💚 “An important milestone for the widespread adoption of the TI-M Pro messenger standard.”
Healthcare Digital on the @gematik.bsky.social commissioned pentest for our multi-tenancy solution to deliver sovereign messaging for local healthcare providers.
www.healthcare-digital.de/ti-messenger...
⚖️ EU’s Digital Omnibus: help or harm for open source?
At @fosdem.org, @denisersa.bsky.social shared a practitioner’s view.
✅ Less bureaucracy (unified incident reporting, shared DPIAs)
⚠️ Risk of GDPR deregulation via changes to personal data definition
🗓️ Consultation is open until 11 March
ESS Pro for TI-M, our multi-tenancy backend, is now externally validated by a @gematik.bsky.social commissioned pentest.
It delivers:
💶 Huge savings from resource efficiency
🛡️Strong tenant isolation
⚡Reliable performance
🔒 Secure Matrix & server APIs
are you looking to selfhost? github.com/element-hq/ess-helm should make it super easy to get going (other than it using k8s)
right. the bottom line there is that the readme was just plain wrong, as per github.com/matrix-org/s...; the misleading stuff about the idea of running synapse HA was deleted long before we had to build Syn Pro to survive. Sorry if it feels like a bait and switch; it wasn’t.
which roadmap are you thinking of - can you link it please? failing to recall synapse ever having had a public roadmap, let alone it ever having had HA on it.
ack. thanks for taking the time to enumerate the jank; most of this is on the radar and we are plugging through it.
A software terroir. What a beautiful phrase. We'll be using it in future. ❤️
which jank are you thinking of in particular? Element X really should have removed all jank. (Element Web is still being shifted over to matrix-rust-sdk and meanwhile does contain literal jank). Or are you talking about another client?
Digital sovereignty isn’t about buying European software - it’s about control and choice.
Open source and open standards give governments the freedom to switch vendors, operate independently and strengthen Europe’s economy 🇪🇺
New blog by @amandine.bsky.social👇
🚀 At @fosdem.org 2026, David Baker & Florian Duros shared how Element Web is evolving - faster, more reliable, and more flexible 💻
See what’s next: element.io/blog/an-elem...
Vintage article from Liam Proven @theregister.com.
Tasting notes: Part retrospective, cram-packed with lively facts, notes of real life examples, and with a wry finish.
Match with sovereign, interoperable and secure communications.
www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/m...
Almost all the EU digital sov initiatives (DINUM in France, ZenDiS + BWI in Germany, SAFOS in Sweden, the EC…) are built on @matrix.org & Element as a secure sovereign Teams replacement, eg www.euractiv.com/news/commiss... - yet we're based in Chiswick. It would be amazing if UK supported its own!
We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy!
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
Pleased to see @maximilian-henning.bsky.social at @euractiv.com covering @ec.europa.eu's use of Element and @matrix.org.
A government cannot be digitally sovereign if it’s locked into using a specific vendor. Matrix solves that problem.
🚨 Real time communication is mission-critical, but legacy systems and consumer apps put defence operations at risk.
Our new paper explores the messenger challenge for defence organisations and shows how to build a sovereign, interoperable and secure solution on the @matrix.org open standard.
🔒 Decoding E2EE: Privacy vs. Usability
E2EE keeps your messages private - but can make adding devices, recovering lost data, or keeping your identity tricky. We make it seamless with unlimited devices, full history, and easy recovery.
Read about the trade-offs and how we work to solve them.
it might just be that we’ve invested a lot in a11y for element, especially screenreader support: element.io/blog/helping... etc
👏 Excellente présentation de @guillaumegrallet.bsky.social pour @en.france24.com sur les alternatives sécurisée et souveraines aux services BigTech. Super de voir @amandine.bsky.social expliquer Element et @matrix.org, avec @gaelduval.bsky.social (Murena et /e/OS) pour un smartphone sans tracker.
The photo captures Amandine Le Pape on the stage at OpenForum Europe's session at the EU Open Source Policy Summit.
Element co-founder and COO, @amandine.bsky.social, participates in @openforumeurope.org's panel debate on Europe’s Software Challenge, discussing how openness underpins digital sovereignty.
Only 2 days left until the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026. The panel “Europe’s Software Challenge” examines how openness can underpin a European software policy that strengthens competitiveness and digital sovereignty.
📍Brussels, 30 January 2026
More information: summit.openforumeurope.org.
We’re proud to sponsor the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026 tomorrow in Brussels hosted by @openforumeurope.org
@amandine.bsky.social joins the opening panel to discuss how open source drives innovation and strengthens Europe’s digital sovereignty.
💻 Register to watch: summit.openforumeurope.org
🚨 Multi-room monitoring, made simple
Element Pro Web now has Grid View allowing you to see, send and track messages across multiple rooms at once.
🟩 Custom grids | ⏱️ Live timelines | 📩 Unread messages highlighted
Built for control rooms, contact centres and cyber operations.
if you’re on the legacy Element mobile client the best bet is to move to Element X. Otherwise, this may be a bug (but we thought we have fixed almost all causes of undecryptable messages). Can you give more details?
💬 When chat history matters most
As limits hit free self-hosted tools, more teams are turning to ESS Community - our free, open-source Matrix distribution.
✔️ Unlimited history
✔️ Voice & video
✔️ E2EE
✔️ Open & sovereign by design
Built on Matrix, with advanced org controls available in ESS Pro👇
but this is what the account recovery key is for?
Important: We've just released a critical security update for ESS Community. Please update as soon as possible: github.com/element-hq/e.... ESS Classic and other Synapse installations are not affected.
