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title: "How I Fixed My Synapse's Matrix Federation"
date: 2023-05-04T10:12:26+03:00
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tags: ['blog']
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## Federation issues

I for the life of me couldn't get synapse's (matrix's) federation to work. It said that the encryption couldn't be trusted, i could join public rooms but i couldn't start any chats, i couldn't invite people to my rooms, i couldn't get invited to rooms.

## How I fixed it

Go to your `homeserver.yaml` file

```bash
nano /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml
```
 
and go all the way to the bottom or search for `trusted_key_servers`. it's probably going to be `matrix.org`. You should change it to the following by removing `matrix.org` and leave blank square brackets:

```
trusted_key_servers: []
```