TL;DR: we’ve just launched areweoidcyet.com to track the project to adopt OpenID Connect (OIDC) as the authentication method used by Matrix. It has a load of useful resources (FAQs, status etc.) so do please check it out!

Hey folks,

As you may know, there is a proposal and project afoot to change the way authentication is done in Matrix…

Currently Matrix uses a custom authentication protocol baked into the Matrix spec. This poses a number of drawbacks. To overcome these drawbacks the project proposes migrating to use the industry standard authentication protocol OpenID Connect (OIDC) instead.

In terms of why this is a good idea: MSC3861 has al