by jupfi, published 2025-12-28 13:00:00 (future)
Hi, this blog post will give you a short overview of our Matrix in general and our private.coffee homeserver! Feel free to jump to the section you are interested in.
First of all we want to give a short overview of what Matrix is and why we chose it.
Matrix is an open standard for communication over the internet. It is also a decentralized platform meaning there isn't a single corporation that controls it (like WhatsApp or Telegram), but different servers can be hosted by different organizations and those servers can communicate with each other. This means that you can choose the server that you trust and still communicate with people on other servers. In that regard it is similar to email, but with a focus on real-time communication.
You can use end-to-end encyption to
You can use Matrix for a variety of different things:
To use Matrix you need a client.
You can find some more information about our homeserver on the following pages:
We provide a Matrix homeserver with conditional registration. This means you can create an account via our online form, but you will have to provide the following:
Short answer: Nazis, bots and spammers. However we noticed that moving to a conditional registration actually made the server feel more like a community and people feel safer. Maybe that is how the internet ought to be, a place of community where people can feel safe and not be harassed easily. You can still stay anonymous on our server and we respect your privacy.
This post by jupfi is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.