Owning Your Matrix Account

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2021-06-27 11:30:07

When we deployed our Matrix instance for GNOME, we were really used to IRC. We did not think through all the ways people would use an account for, and left registrations too open. As a consequence, many people created an account on our instance because they like the GNOME Project, and started using it as a personal account.

Now that we are more experienced with the difference between an organisational account and a personal one, I would like to walk you through the differences between the two, why segregating activities can be useful, and finally how to migrate data from an account to another.

Organisational accounts and personal ones don’t have technical differences. They are the same thing from a technical perspective, except one is offered to you by an organisation for a purpose, and the other is an account you get yourself for your own usage. Let’s see what to expect from both, and how the lines can sometimes be blurry.

When an organisation, such as the GNOME Foundation, provides you with an account, its name and reputation is bound to the account: whatever you do with this account is done in the name of this organisation.

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