Matrix Tutorials #5 — Calling Synapse’s admin API with Python (and OIDC fun)

A special episode of Open Tech Will Save Us on the topic of moderation. This can be a loaded term… and not everyone agrees on what moderation even is. We will explore with our guest what moderation is, what it means to moderate online communities, if it applies to decentralised projects as well, a…

This week we're learning how to set-up an OIDC playground: we're deploying a Synapse and an Authentik (OpenID provider) instance, populating them each with similar or different users, and configuring them to play with each other. Next week we're going to see how to perform an actual reconciliation…

Demos day at Element! 00:00 Hello 00:52 Native (Element) Calls in Element Web 04:00 WYSIWYG editors 09:07 Matrix Public Archive 11:02 Mjolnir (moderation) for all! 17:48 Thirdroom  (This Week in) Matrix 🐦️ https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg 🐘 https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix [m] https://matrix.t…

Our guest today is Rich, to talk about how the Synapse team is hard at work to hunt those pesky spinners. Faster room joins now? Yes! But only for the brave 00:00 Hello 00:50 Let's dive in local and remote room joins 08:06 Summarising what is a local and a remote room 08:38 Who is the most likely …