This Week in Conduit (Matrix Homeserver)

Conduit is a new implementation of a Matrix homeserver: https://conduit.rs

Matrix is a secure, private, decentralized, open source messaging platform. Check out https://matrix.org and https://element.io

This week I worked a bit on federation! Last week we were able to query room directories over federation; This week I looked into what's needed to join one of those rooms:

• Resolve room aliases over federation
• Send make_join request when a user tries to join an unknown room
• Use make_join response to create send_join request (insert origin, origin_server_ts and add hashes and signatures)

After implementing all those things, I could actually see Conduit's join event on Synapse!

Of course a lot more work is needed to make this really work, like creating the room on the Conduit side and sending and receiving federation transactions, but this is a start.

Other news:

• Docker support (thanks to Weasy, Valkum and Paul)
• Room upgrade support (almost done, thanks to Faelar)

Thanks to everyone who supports me on Liberapay or Bitcoin!