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[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 08:07:12PM +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> But... the cool thing is you don't need to register at matrix.org to be able to use other matrix servers.
> 
> As Sandro says: your osgeo.org-id should also be a valid (osgeo)-matrix id, at least to communicate with osgeo users, but for what I know also with matrix.org-user accounts.
> And just like different email accounts (from different domains/providers) you can have different matrix identities.

Confirmed. Matrix is a federated system, like email.
You don't need to stick to a single provider.
You can communicate with any user and any channel no matter
where you log in.

--strk;