Messaging without anyone owning the wire.
New and small — run by one personEnter this where your app asks for the server
knoten.chat
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From age 16. The terms of use apply.
Open in the browserThe best alternative to WhatsApp is not the next large provider. It is a network nobody owns.
Matrix works like email: many servers, one protocol, all of them talking to each other. This is one of them — not the centre, just a node. If you do not like it, pick another. Or run your own.
No phone number. No address book upload. Other people only need your address — and it looks like an email address that has been stirred once:
Every app asks for the server during setup. Not for the page you are looking at. The name is at the top of this page — and it is also in your own address, after the colon.
If an app insists on a full URL:
https://matrix.knoten.chat
Do not enter:
app.knoten.chat — the chat in your browseraccount.knoten.chat — account managementPrivate conversations are encrypted — including from the operator. Which also means: lose your recovery key and older messages are gone. Nobody can bring them back. That is the price of nobody reading along.