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There would be nothing stopping users from hosting their own homeserver, but there would be something preventing them from communicating with all the users stil
by rvern 9y ago
There would be nothing stopping users from hosting their own homeserver, but there would be something preventing them from communicating with all the users still on matrix.org. And all the users still on matrix.org would stay there because the matrix.org homeserver would provide more value to them, by having more users, than a homeserver that can't communicate with most Matrix users.
- mxuribe 9y agoYeah, i see your point...I guess once a popular hub like the matrix.org home server goes "offline", the curve to "re-discover" your colleagues on their own NEW home servers - assuming they even set themselves up on their own self hosted home servers - is a pretty steep curve. Though some users already use their own home servers (like owning their own domain name to use for their email address), plenty of people siomply leverage an account strictly on matrix.org...so yeah, lots of people would "go offline" from the matrix protocol. (I begrudgingly see your point :-)