Nicolas Da Mutten
Nicolas is a passionate self-hoster and open source enthusiast with a strong focus in infrastructure. Having a background in software engineering he started his hosting adventures around the age of 16, running collaboration tools and php websites on a iMac with macOS server. Since then, his skillset grew a lot, adding containers, gitops, linux, CI/CD, and ochestration and he took on numerous volunteer engagements with the Swiss scout association, now being part of the national IT committee.
At Matrix Conf 2025 he decided it was time to contribute actively to open source and together with others startet the Homeserver Decentralisation WG.
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Matrix was created with the idea of federation at the core, but nowadays there is matrix.org which contains a majority of the users of the wider matrix network, nullifying the benefits of it. This has since also started generating significant cost for The Matrix Foundation and lead to shutdown of some previously offered bridges. The Homeserver Decentralisation Working Group aims to improve the situation.