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Wanna join this server?

Matrix frei.chat was opened on January 23rd, 2022 and enjoys new users every day. Take the opportunity and chat with your friends on frei.chat or other Matrix servers worldwide. Connect your WhatsApp, Telegram, Singal or other social networks.

User stats

See how many users are currently live, how many have been online in the last 24hrs, and how many active accounts there are in total. This image is updated every 5 minutes.

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How to start

1. Choose from one of four clients
2. Check if your preferred username exist
3. Set a strong password (at least 32 or more characters, digits, special characters, etc.)
4. Set a valid mail address (nessecary for account validation)
5. After successfully validating your new account go to settings > security and create a new security key for encrypted chats
6. In the beginning you don't see any chats. Click on the big plus symbol, click "join public room" and from the "select matrix rooms" dropbox click on "Matrix" underneath matrixrooms.info. Here you can search in over 250,000 public rooms (constantly growing) and find the topics that interest you.

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success "Features"

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Frontend clients
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[Element](https://element.frei.chat)
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[Schildichat](https://schildichat.frei.chat)
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[Cinny](https://cinny.frei.chat)
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[Hydrogen](https://hydrogen.frei.chat)
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Android / iOS and other platform [clients](clients.md)
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End-to-end encrypted Matrix chats (federation wide)
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[Bridges](bridges.md) to third party messenger
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WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.
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End-to-bridge encrypted bridge chats
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Internal push service via [NTFY](services.md)
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Retention policy for local media 90 days and remote media 30 days
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Sliding sync for ElementX ([Android and iOS](https://element.io/labs/element-x))
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Regular software [updates](updates.md) 

Additional services

These are some additional services by frei.chat. They are completely free to use.

* New bot
    * [Postmoogle (send and receive e-mails)](bots.md)