* Is all matrix.org's server-side for this open source, and able to be self-hosted?

* Do all the Matrix clients need to be modified to support this authentication method?

Love matrix. Improving the onboarding is a great step. I've seen less technical people have issues in that area until now.

Mostly a desktop/web user myself, hoping all that Element X work will trickle down to us.

I vaguely remember an old MSC or TWIM or something that described (the possibility of) a new authentication mechanism whereby I could set up either a dummy homeserver or something in .well_known that would allow me to use my own domain but without needing to use my own homeserver for the actual traffic. Sort of like an auth-only homeserver, if you will.

Is that part of MAS? Was that initiative ever fully-baked? Or am I just misremembering?

I set firefox to clear cookies, also using cookies to "strict"

This somehow causes a huge pain to connect to mozilla's matrix instance, and I never understood why. This is a bit ironic since firefox has that feature to clear cookies.

I had to reset password, and do other weird things, I can't remember what exactly.

I hope this MAS thing fixes it.

Cool! I’ve recently consolidated all of my Google Chat and WhatsApp friends onto Matrix (via Element) because it’s E2EE. Gchat isn’t and I assume that Meta has a backdoor into WhatsApp conversations. So, those platforms can’t be trusted. Signal doesn’t have a web interface, so that’s a no-go for me. lol Telegram.

Matrix has been great for me and I recommend that everyone else use it!