Meeting Notes

needs to go away as we lost access to some of this due to it being reported as spam
runs on infrastructure which we could only use for a short period of time
set up new Telegram bridge, but only for external facing rooms
- causes high load
- big spam source, as banning isn't propagated
update [2023-08-22]: see this mailing list post about the Telegram bridge retirement

plans to set up our own bridge existed already, predating the Libera bridge shutdown announcement
planned for deployment in August
only explicitly set up rooms will be bridged, reusing existing rooms, should be largely transparent to current users
for about six month we couldn't bridge new rooms, hosting our own bridge would solve that

about half of the users on our Matrix server are from Telegram
a large part of this is however people using both
Telegram is extensively used in some local communities (e.g. Brazil)
the overall goal is to have people on Matrix, running the bridge indefinitely was never the idea

currently ~15k users, ~10k accounts have recently been purged
hosted by EMS, and assumed to remain that way for the foreseeable future
should it ever be needed we can move that, and would get a full dump of our data there
new server for the bridge could also run bots, but someone would need to create those
working towards moving accounts to invent SSO
- should this be limited to developer accounts only?
initially we had open registration, which caused spam incidents and ended up with our instance blocked

for new rooms, file a sysadmin ticket so it gets covered by the moderation system
reporting spam/abuse in any KDE room using the built-in report option will trigger bans that are propagated to all rooms
all this needs to be documented on the Matrix wiki page
do we need more people helping with moderation?
- a few more people might help
- problem: this implies admin powers over all rooms