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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Lightweight, Decentralized Chat.</h1>
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**Telodendria** is an extremely powerful, yet lightweight and portable
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chat server designed to be easy to install and configure. Powered by
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the [Matrix](https://matrix.org) protocol, Telodendria empowers
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everyone to run their own chat server on ordinary hardware, including
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old and embedded devices. Whether you want a simple chat server just
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for you and your friends and family, or want to talk to users on other
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Matrix homeservers but don't want to go through all the hastle of
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hosting a complicated, high-maintenance homeserver or joining an
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existing homeserver for privacy or other reasons, then Telodendria
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might be for you.
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!!!! **Note:** Telodendria still in development. See **Status** below.
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## What is Matrix?
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Matrix is an **open standard** for *interoperable*, *decentralized*,
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*secure*, and *real-time* communication over the internet.
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Matrix can be thought of as the successor to email, but it works
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very similar to iMessage, Discord, or direct messaging on most
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social media networks. The primary difference between Matrix and these
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other services, however, is that Matrix doesn't depend on one central
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authority, and is designed in such a way to respect your privacy.
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Matrix has proven itself over the last few
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years to be a reliable communication tool, and has only gotten more
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user-friendly over the course of its development. Matrix is capable
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enough that it can—and should—totally replace any other
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means of digital communication, and it offers a much higher degree
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of security, simplicity, and functionality.
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Strictly speaking, Matrix itself is just the *protocol* by which
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clients and servers communicate. In order to use Matrix, we need
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implementations of both clients and servers. Telodendria is a server
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implementation of the Matrix protocol.
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## Why Telodendria?
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- **Lightweight:** Written in the C programming language, Telodendria
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is automatically lighter and faster than other self-hosted chat servers.
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It has very few external dependencies and is as self-contained as
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possible.
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- **Fully-Featured:** Most lightweight chat solutions compromise on
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features. Telodendria is built on the fully-featured Matrix protocol,
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which provides a chat experience that most normal users are familiar
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with.
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- **Portable:** You can run Telodendria on just about everything,
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including more traditional options like a personal home server or VPS,
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but also more obscure platforms like Raspberry Pis or retro computers.
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Telodendria can run on a broad number of operating systems, which means
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that no matter which platform and OS you prefer, there is a good chance
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you can add Telodendria without much difficulty. It is also extremely
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easy to migrate a Telodendria instance between platforms; just copy the
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data directory to a new device.
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- **Simple:** Telodendria is designed to be a simple, no-frills
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chat server. It is easy to install, easy to configure, and easy to
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maintain.
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- **Stable:** Other Matrix homeservers develop at the pace of the
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Matrix specification itself, which is to say quite rapidly. Changes are
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always being made, and a version shipped 6 months ago is already
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incredibly outdated. Telodendria, on the other hand, aims to be stable.
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It should *just work* for long periods of time between upgrades, and
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you should never feel like Telodendria is going to change significantly
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between upgrades.
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- **Well-Documented:** Telodendria places as much emphasis on documentation as on code, which means you can be sure that the documentation will always remain up-to-date, accurate, and most importantly, reasonably exhaustive.
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[Read Technical Rationale →](https://git.telodendria.io/Telodendria/Telodendria/src/branch/master/docs/dev/rationale.md)
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## Get Started
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Check out the [Documentation](https://git.telodendria.io/Telodendria/telodendria/src/branch/master/docs/README.md) to get started with
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Telodendria.
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## Status
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Telodendria is in the very early stages of development. As such, it may
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not yet deliver on all of its promises. Currently, Telodendria is not
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ready for end-users yet. While it features very basic user
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authentication, it does not actually work as a chat server yet.
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We are hoping to ship Telodendria `v1.7.0-alpha4` by January of 2025. This
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release should be usable for communication between **local users**
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only. Additional features, including federation with other Matrix
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homeservers will be added in future releases.
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You can help speed up development by **sponsoring**
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Telodendria or [getting involved](https://git.telodendria.io/Telodendria/Telodendria/src/branch/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## Sponsorship
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Telodendria is maintained by a loosely-knit band of volunteers. The
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project currently has no sponsors and thus no source of income to
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pay for infrastructure costs and developer time. To ensure
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Telodendria's long-term success, please consider sponsoring the
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project.
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You can make a recurring donation to Telodendria using
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[LiberaPay](https://liberapay.com/Telodendria/donate). You can also make
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one-time donations using
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[Stripe](https://donate.stripe.com/8wM29AfF5bRJc48eUU). If you would
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like to make a recurring donation larger than that allowed by
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LiberaPay, please contact Jordan Bancino over Matrix at
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`@jordan:bancino.net` or email at `jordan@bancino.net`.
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### Benefits
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While there are no set sponsorship tiers at this time, sponsoring
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Telodendria is a mutually beneficial relationship. Depending on the
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amount you donate, you can get your name, logo, and website links
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on the [Sponsors](../sponsors) page, the project `README`, or the
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main website.
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## License
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All of the code and documentation for Telodendria is licensed under a
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modified MIT license. The MIT license is an extremely permissive
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license that has very few restrictions. Please consult the
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[`LICENSE.txt`](https://git.telodendria.io/Telodendria/Telodendria/src/branch/master/LICENSE.txt) file for the actual license text. It is
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important to note that the Telodendria license text differs from the
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original MIT license in the following ways:
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- Where the MIT license states that the copyright notice and permission
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notice shall be included in all copies or *substantial* portions of the
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software, the Telodendria requires the copyright notice and
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permission notice be included with *all* portions, regardless of the
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size, by omitting the word *substantial*.
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The Telodendria logo in all its forms, including the ASCII
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representation, belongs solely to the Telodendria project. It must be
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used only to represent the official Telodendria project. You are free
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to use the logo in any way as long as it represents or links to the
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official project. If Telodendria is forked, the logo must be removed
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completely from the project, and optionally replaced by a different
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one.
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