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>for instance we haven't yet blocked any server from Matrix.org This is stretching the truth. I remember there was a time where Matrix.org attempted to purge a

>for instance we haven't yet blocked any server from Matrix.org This is stretching the truth. I remember there was a time where Matrix.org attempted to purge a lot of channels related to image board communities. Channels that started with the format of /?/ were deleted from Matrix.org. This includes the federated version of channels from other homeservers. I think it is disingenuous to say that you do not block any other homeservers when you have deleted channels from other homeservers, preventing them from federating properly. Some users have been banned from official channels on the Matrix.org server because of the homeserver they were registered on. Perhaps things have changed since I was last involved with Matrix, but from what I saw the Matrix.org homeserver was to be avoided since they did not play nice.

Arathorn 6y ago
I'm not aware of us ever having doing any en-masse removal of /?/ style rooms from Matrix.org server. However, it's true that we do remove individual rooms from the server if they break the server's T&Cs (https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/matrix-org/terms_and_conditions.md#6-play-nice-clauses https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/matri...) - but that's completely different to unilaterally blocking other servers or shutting down rooms based on the pattern of their name(!), which we don't (so far, at least). There's a whole bunch of conspiracy theories that we do block servers though - but ironically this tends to be due to federation problems (often the remote server hasn't tuned its rate limits, and so as its users get more active, busier servers trying to talk to it get rate limited. matrix.org is one of the busiest servers, therefore the first symptoms of the problem are that it looks like matrix.org is explicitly blocking the server. comedy, eh?). However, if folks want to believe the conspiracy theory instead, we're not going to shed too many tears.

Arathorn 6y ago

I'm not aware of us ever having doing any en-masse removal of /?/ style rooms from Matrix.org server. However, it's true that we do remove individual rooms from the server if they break the server's T&Cs (https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/matrix-org/terms_and_conditions.md#6-play-nice-clauses https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/matri...) - but that's completely different to unilaterally blocking other servers or shutting down rooms based on the pattern of their name(!), which we don't (so far, at least). There's a whole bunch of conspiracy theories that we do block servers though - but ironically this tends to be due to federation problems (often the remote server hasn't tuned its rate limits, and so as its users get more active, busier servers trying to talk to it get rate limited. matrix.org is one of the busiest servers, therefore the first symptoms of the problem are that it looks like matrix.org is explicitly blocking the server. comedy, eh?). However, if folks want to believe the conspiracy theory instead, we're not going to shed too many tears.