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You know that the identity server is not mandatory and is only useful in a professional setting right? If you really want to, you can host it yourself.
by jaemoe 6y ago
You know that the identity server is not mandatory and is only useful in a professional setting right?
If you really want to, you can host it yourself.
- nimbius 6y agowithout one clients will not be able to look up user IDs using 3PIDs, so its relatively important. hosting it yourself means having to email or message "us" in order to federate it.
- andrewshadura 6y agoI've been using Matrix for three years I believe and I can't remember a single time when I needed to use 3PIDs.
- business007 6y agodoes matrix store anything in the server or is this really p2p? can this be a good replacement for say, telegram?
- feanaro 6y agoSo don't use a 3PID to add someone, use their MXID. It's a unique, global identifier and is similar enough to an email address. There's also a Matrix URI specification in the works (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2312 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2312). Once that lands, we should start seeing support for Matrix URIs in applications. This will allow applications to also start recognising MXIDs and converting them into working links, which will in turn help with people's recognition of the MXID.