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FAQ: Homeservers versus Communities #28

Open MilkManzJourDaddy opened 6 years ago

MilkManzJourDaddy commented 6 years ago

I wish we would shift to the term "Community" rather than "(Home)Server", and it's not just the Discord™ thing. It's a whole paradigm where people are failing to understand Decentralized-Federated Communities and that, generally, the Homeserver one uses to connect is irrelevant to their Communities.

MilkManzJourDaddy commented 6 years ago

On a general note, the sense of Community should ursurp the sense of any (Home)server. On a Decentralized-Federated platform like Matrix, anyone could operate their own Homeserver and participate in whatever communities welcome them. Think of it like phones, SMS (text) or mailto: (e-mail); whereas basicly anyone can communicate with anyone reguardless of their service provider. Rooms or groups of rooms known as a Community may banish someone for arbitrary reasons. But generally a Public Homeserver removing a MXID (Matrix ID) is for cause.

MilkManzJourDaddy commented 6 years ago

IMHO the Communities are more important than the Homeservers, in many ways. If people are in rooms that are part of a Community list, they are represented, even if not listed in the Community list directly.