You will want to read this issue before attempting to join any Matrix room via the XMPP bifrost bridge:
tl;dr you can’t really leave
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Welcome to the Hotel California.
Thanks for the report, personally though, I’ve been in and out with different xmpp accounts in a matrix room and haven’t encountered this issue, so I don’t know if it has been fixed
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I have never seen something like this. I have right now entered and left this room and all is well.
Strange story.
Or via Biboumi XMPP gateway/bridge:
eg. join this channel #fdroid%irc.oftc.net@irc.jabberfr.org
(this is one bridge, there are more or you host yourself)
That’s an easy setup…but I don’t do Dockers so I’m not sure if a plain setup is allowed, maybe a VM? @hans? @uniqx?
Cool kids have Play installed, so lets close F-Droid? Ummm…slippery slope 
Better think of it like this @g33kz4su
- Saying you like FOSS yet use Discord (or any other silo like Telegram or Signal or Wire or only the matrix.org server heh) you keep saying to your friends that: “you should use <closed silo/software>, I’m just quirky and odd”
- Every day you are still a silo user you keep your friends prisoners too!
- If you don’t stand up for your principles, why should your friends?
Like RMS says, every “NO” helps: Saying No to unjust computing even once is help - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Say NO to silos!
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matrix is not a silo, it is as free and open as XMPP, plus it works better IMHO.
There are many servers out there, and they federate well. fdroid even has a
server. I agree that Telegram/Signal/Wire are silos, though the clients are
free software (except for the google libs in some).
That’s not what I’ve said 
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