🇱🇺 At #MatrixConf2025, Patrick Weber shared how Luxembourg built LuxChat4Gov — a sovereign, secure and federated national messaging platform for the public sector. 🚀 Based on @The Matrix.org Foundation and using a fork of the Element app, it supports 11k+ public users; from ministers to firefighters and frontline staff! ▶️ Patrick’s talk revealed how a nation can move fast, adopt open standards and deliver trusted digital public infrastructure for everyone:

🇩🇪 How do you consolidate government-to-citizen communications across Germany’s highly federalised public administration? At #MatrixConf2025, Dominic Brown from @npub1uegt...399r shared his work on building a federated, secure and user-friendly communications infrastructure for citizens and organisations. @The Matrix.org Foundation is recommended as the default infrastructure, with pilot projects like NEO already testing Matrix-based messaging for administrative procedures. Watch the talk:

🔐 From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted messages on Element. This further ensures you can trust every message and stay protected from potential malicious activity, following the Matrix spec update announced at #MatrixConf2025. Prepare by reading the actions required!

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Verifying your devices is becoming mandatory

From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.