This post and call to action comes from a place of repeated frustration and issues with moderation on matrix.org. As many other Matrix admins and users may know, this is a widespread issue that has gotten worse with time. If you are curious about the scope of this movement, scroll to the bottom of the page for a list of participants.

In recent history, the Matrix Foundation has failed to address impersonator accounts that I have reported for over 3 weeks. The proper channels were used, and I am not the only one to report these impersonators. There have been DMs from others in public rooms to ask if the activities are from legitimate accounts as well, confirming that these have been abused already and will probably remain actively abused.

Despite multiple attempts to get in contact with matrix.org administrators about this issue, both through email and on Matrix, all that has been received in response is radio silence. And this is far from an isolated issue, as the more you participate within the Matrix ecosystem the more you will discover how many people complain of the same neglect.

On top of this personal issue, they remain a hotspot for spammers, scammers, and outright disgusting people to sign up because the server is huge and administrators have admitted openly to not having the resources for proper, timely moderation that other homeservers enact.

There has been a big push for Matrix to shut down their homeserver to focus resources onto developing the protocol as well, but I don't see them taking this step unless forced because they are obsessed with the idea of a central server to onboard new people (which, by the way, other protocols like XMPP do not try with and they do well without).

Given that the Matrix Foundation has admitted to these faults, being so bad that many are pushing for total removal from the network, I think the only reasonable conclusion is that they either need to redirect funding/resources into moderation, lock down, or shut down. That's where this call to action comes into play.

We can't rely on some of the most unreliable homeserver administrators to fix problems with their homeserver that affect all users across the network. However if their hand is forced, we can have the possibility of seeing some tangible action taken.

I propose that homeserver admins from all walks of life collectively band together and give the Matrix Foundation a cutoff date before they are ACL'd on a widespread basis. This would render matrix.org unable to communicate with a large portion of the network, which would impact their users heavily along with their operations to onboard new users.

With the discussion of other server admins, these are the measures that we want to see taken if matrix.org does not want to see a widespread blockage:

Before 2026-01-01
- Include a reasonable time-frame to receive a human response from abuse reports
- Allocate more resources and time into moderation of matrix.org user accounts, even if taken from other areas
- Further publicize the steps matrix.org takes when receiving abuse reports so users know what to expect
- Stop the forcing of reports to take place on an insecure protocol unaffiliated with Matrix (email? really? that's all?)

Participating homeservers (as of 2025-08-19):
- sofalounge.club
- isekai.rocks
- skhron.org

Participating room admins (as of 2025-08-19):
- @vel:faelix.im

This means our provision would block morg users from reaching:
30+ users
10+ rooms
3 homeservers

If you also feel as if the Matrix Foundation has been neglecting moderation of their own network, please join the movement so we can further pressure them into properly maintaining their protocol.