discord bridge example

_posts/2026-04-30-self-hosting-a-matrix-instance-with-podman.md

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 Or with the registration API, you can use [this script](https://git.hadow.fr/sam.hadow/Useful-scripts/src/branch/main/create_matrix_account.sh).
+
+## what about bridges?
+
+Bridges allow you to receive message from other services in matrix. In this section I'll give an example on how to self host a bridge alongside your matrix instance with the discord bridge.
+
+### discord bridge example
+
+Creating the initial bridge files:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p /home/data/podman/synapse/mautrix-discord
+podman run --rm -v /home/data/podman/synapse/mautrix-discord:/data:z dock.mau.dev/mautrix/discord:latest
+```
+
+Create the database: *(adapt the password)*
+
+```bash
+podman exec -it synapse-db /bin/bash
+psql -U synapse
+CREATE USER discordmautrix WITH PASSWORD 'password';
+CREATE DATABASE discordmautrix WITH OWNER = 'discordmautrix' ;
+```
+
+Then delete synapse container and recreate it with the bridge registration file: *(don't forget to regenerate, or adapt, the systemd service)
+
+```bash
+podman run -d --pod=synapse \
+-e SYNAPSE_CONFIG_PATH=/data/homeserver.yaml \
+-v /home/data/podman/synapse/config:/data:Z \
+-v /home/data/podman/synapse/media:/data/media:z \
+-v /home/data/podman/synapse/logs:/data/logs:Z \
+-v /home/data/podman/synapse/mautrix-discord-registration.yaml:/data/mautrix-discord-registration.yaml:Z \
+--name=synapse-app \
+--label io.containers.autoupdate=registry docker.io/matrixdotorg/synapse:latest
+```
+
+#### using the bridge
+
+You'll then have access to a user "discord bridge bot" on your instance where you can log in into your discord account and then bridge your messages.