conduwuit

a very cool Matrix chat homeserver written in Rust

Visit the conduwuit documentation for more information and how to deploy/setup conduwuit.

What is Matrix?

Matrix is an open, federated, and extensible network for decentralised communication. Users from any Matrix homeserver can chat with users from all other homeservers over federation. Matrix is designed to be extensible and built on top of. You can even use bridges such as Matrix Appservices to communicate with users outside of Matrix, like a community on Discord.

What is the goal?

A high-performance, efficient, low-cost, and featureful Matrix homeserver that's easy to set up and just works with minimal configuration needed.

Can I try it out?

An official conduwuit server ran by me is available at transfem.dev (element.transfem.dev / cinny.transfem.dev)

transfem.dev is a public homeserver that can be used, it is not a "test only homeserver". This means there are rules, so please read the rules: https://transfem.dev/homeserver_rules.txt

transfem.dev is also listed at servers.joinmatrix.org, which is a list of popular public Matrix homeservers, including some others that run conduwuit.

What is the current status?

conduwuit is technically a hard fork of Conduit, which is in beta. The beta status initially was inherited from Conduit, however the huge amount of codebase divergance, changes, fixes, and improvements have effectively made this beta status not entirely applicable to us anymore.

conduwuit is very stable based on our rapidly growing userbase, has lots of features that users expect, and very usable as a daily driver for small, medium, and upper-end medium sized homeservers.

A lot of critical stability and performance issues have been fixed, and a lot of necessary groundwork has finished; making this project way better than it was back in the start at ~early 2024.

How is conduwuit funded? Is conduwuit sustainable?

conduwuit has no external funding. This is made possible purely in my freetime with contributors, also in their free time, and only by user-curated donations.

conduwuit has existed since around November 2023, but only became more publicly known in March/April 2024 and we have no plans in stopping or slowing down any time soon!

Can I migrate or switch from Conduit?

conduwuit is a complete drop-in replacement for Conduit. As long as you are using RocksDB, the only "migration" you need to do is replace the binary or container image. There is no harm or additional steps required for using conduwuit. See the Migrating from Conduit section on the generic deploying guide.

Note that as of conduwuit version 0.5.0, backwards compatibility with Conduit is no longer supported. We only support migrating from Conduit, not back to Conduit like before. If you are truly finding yourself wanting to migrate back to Conduit, we would appreciate all your feedback and if we can assist with any issues or concerns.

Can I migrate from Synapse or Dendrite?

Currently there is no known way to seamlessly migrate all user data from the old homeserver to conduwuit. However it is perfectly acceptable to replace the old homeserver software with conduwuit using the same server name and there will not be any issues with federation.

There is an interest in developing a built-in seamless user data migration method into conduwuit, however there is no concrete ETA or timeline for this.

Contact

#conduwuit:puppygock.gay is the official project Matrix room. You can get support here, ask questions or concerns, get assistance setting up conduwuit, etc.

This room should stay relevant and focused on conduwuit. An offtopic general chatter room can be found there as well.

Please keep the issue trackers focused on bug reports and enhancement requests. General support is extremely difficult to be offered over an issue tracker, and simple questions should be asked directly in an interactive platform like our Matrix room above as they can turn into a relevant discussion and/or may not be simple to answer. If you're not sure, just ask in the Matrix room.

If you have a bug or feature to request: Open an issue on GitHub

Donate

conduwuit development is purely made possible by myself and contributors. I do not get paid to work on this, and I work on it in my free time. Donations are heavily appreciated! 💜🥺

• Liberapay (preferred): https://liberapay.com/girlbossceo
• GitHub Sponsors (preferred): https://github.com/sponsors/girlbossceo
• Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/puppygock

I do not and will not accept cryptocurrency donations, including things related.

Logo

Original repo and Matrix room picture was from bran (<3). Current banner image and logo is directly from this cohost post.

Is it conduwuit or Conduwuit?

Both, but I prefer conduwuit.

Mirrors of conduwuit

If GitHub is unavailable in your country, or has poor connectivity, conduwuit's source code is mirrored onto the following additional platforms I maintain:

• GitHub: https://github.com/girlbossceo/conduwuit
• GitLab: https://gitlab.com/conduwuit/conduwuit
• git.girlcock.ceo: https://git.girlcock.ceo/strawberry/conduwuit
• git.gay: https://git.gay/june/conduwuit
• mau.dev: https://mau.dev/june/conduwuit
• Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/arf/conduwuit
• sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~girlbossceo/conduwuit