Looking for a matrix homeserver

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I’m looking for a Matrix homeserver.

Requirements:

  • No email requirement.

  • Good privacy policy.

  • Stable.

  • Not matrix.org, too many people are on there already, which makes it more centralized then it should be.

  • Up-to-date

Any recommendations?

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I’m on unredacted.org which was free at the timebut currently they ask for a $5 donation (Monero/crypto accepted) to get an account. Their ToS is basically just “don’t post anything illegal”. They also run an XMPP server, Shadowsocks bridges, Tor exit nodes and a Monero node.

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tchncs.de is good option. Also, thier ToS is basically - just be nice

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They ask for an email address.

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Should be optional, for password recovery only

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It isn’t optional according to: https://servers.joinmatrix.org/

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Hi! Even with the current measures like email verification in place, it is difficult (but it helps!) to prevent bad actors who try flood the network with annoying and often even very much illegal content. On top of that, even until today users contact me to seek help with their forgotten password, but since tchncs didn’t force email in the beginning, it then makes it hard to impossible to have them validate themself in order to get help with the password reset.

If you decide to join a server without safeguards like email verification, it is likely to struggle from high moderation load or the owner gave up already / does not care, which then would make it likely for the server to become a) abandoned and later shut down or/and b) blocked by major servers for their own safety because they have to deal with all those spammers that keep coming from it.

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Why don’t you host your own?

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i just set my own server up yesterday evening. I currently have registration limited to only allowing people to sign up if i have granted them a registration token.

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This is awesome and what everyone should do. Every community should have their own server and stop using centralized, proprietary services like Discord or Whatsapp that spy on their users and/or sell data to data brokers and governments.

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Coincidentally matrix.org main server did go down yesterday due to corrupt database Matrix Status - Database incident

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Just joined. I didn’t get asked for a donation - they must’ve made it free again :slightly_smiling_face:

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Is there any rust based public server? There’s a couple of implementations, but I only found one public server that uses them, and it had timestamp issues

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