No, Cloudflare’s Matrix server isn’t an earnest project
No, Cloudflare’s Matrix server isn’t an earnest project¶ Yesterday, 2026-01-27, Cloudflare published a blog post announcing that they had built a Matrix homeserver that could run entirely on Cloudflare workers. This sounds amazing! Finally, serverless edge-computing for my chat protocol. In theory this brings great benefits, given Cloudflare’s dominant global presence. It could even improve access, since lots of networks don’t just blanket ban Cloudflare ranges. But, something far more sinister lies in wait. This post was originally longer The first draft of this post had an estimated reading time of 30 minutes. In order to save your attention drifting, I’ve shortened this post drastically. You can see the initial first draft here:…
