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**This package only provides the Matrix backend. A variety of clients are available
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[here](https://matrix.org/clients/). Riot is a popular web frontend for Matrix and
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is available as a separate app.**
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## About
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Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP.
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Matrix specifies a set of pragmatic RESTful HTTP JSON APIs as an open standard, which handle:
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* Creating and managing fully distributed chat rooms with no single points of control or failure
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* Eventually-consistent cryptographically secure synchronisation of room state across a global open network of federated servers and services
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* Sending and receiving extensible messages in a room with (optional) end-to-end encryption[1]
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* Inviting, joining, leaving, kicking, banning room members
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* Managing user accounts (registration, login, logout)
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* Using 3rd Party IDs (3PIDs) such as email addresses, phone numbers, Facebook accounts to authenticate, identify and discover users on Matrix.
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* Placing 1:1 VoIP and Video calls
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## What is Synapse?
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Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the core development
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team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted.
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