Purism hasn’t really coordinated with the core Matrix team (or the Matrix.org Foundation) on shipping Matrix on the Librem5 beyond the initial press release. To the best of my knowledge, they are shipping a build of Fractal: a Gtk/Rust client built by the wider FOSS community. However, to get Fractal to do everything that’s needed for the Librem5 is a significant amount of work. Unfortunately the Matrix core team hasn’t received any funding to work on this, and we can’t donate time as building a mobile linux app for Purism’s usage would come at the expense of other much more core Matrix work (e.g. turning on E2E by default; addressing the privacy complaints earlier in this thread; improving server stability/scalability; etc). I’m not sure how much support the Fractal team themselves has received to do what’s needed.
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