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Hosted on my own hardware currently, open source code here if anyone else wants to try it: https://gitlab.com/masland.tech/matrix-activity-tracker

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago

Wow this is exactly what matrix needs rn.

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Glad to hear it, if you have any suggestions please let me know.

[-] artifex@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Yea I have, and that's exactly why I created this. Finding them without this tool would have been really annoying. Here's a screenshot of the top 12h rooms:

Right now they are pretty diverse. The two most active I recommend starting off in if you're English speaking are #envs_lounge:matrix.org and #anime:matrix.org

This is the one I made https://matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org before I created the activity tracker and realized there were several others.

[-] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

So there is nothing about like niche hobbies on there? Like gourmet mushroom cultivation, or brewing I take it?

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There's nothing stopping you from creating a room for that and inviting people.

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The biggest problem I've noticed is that the amount of "Members" is displayed in clients, but so many rooms have a lot of "Members" but no real activity. Which is what this tracker attempts to solve by looking at actual chat messages and timestamps.

[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 6 points 3 days ago

I wander if matrix will jump in use as discord now needs age verification?

[-] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Considering Matrix age, and precedents, my bets/hopes are for a new protocol to emerge as a "modern Matrix" (just like Matrix was marketing itself as "modern XMPP").

Matrix just doesn't have a great and smooth UX right now to compete with the main actors, the heavy protocol is to blame so that's not something we can hope to see sorted out quickly/on time.

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I think it will, another reason I built this, because new people coming to matrix will need a way to browse rooms more easily.

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

How many good projects should I bookmark🙂. My booksmarks have become Chonk

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I've never explored the Matrix. Reddit use to be the only 'social media' type outlet that I frequented, and now Lemmy. Total Accounts: 2,222,678. That seems significant.

[-] jaykrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

In hindsight the accounts counter was incorrect it was adding up all the accounts from every room without considering that many of the same accounts come from different rooms. I'll have to add a deeper tracker which I don't think is necessary to track individual accounts, outside of the scope of the activity tracker.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

So, for the clueless (me), what is Matrix. I hear people talk about it. Is it a chat platform, forum platform like Lemmy, or other. Might as well ask the stupid questions.

[-] farfalla@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

My impression is that it's inspired by Discord, so let's say a chat with forum features, or a forum with an instantaneous feeling

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I went and looked it up yesterday. The protocol itself seems very fascinating, and the fact that there is a handful of governments that have adopted the Matrix protocol seems huge. I've always thought it was a chat platform and that's not really my bag, so I never investigated. Hell, I don't even FaceTime anyone except my lady friend, but for those who do use that channel of communications, it seems like it would be the ticket.

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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