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Regarding contact discovery, that seems to be the purpose of the identity server: https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-an-identity-server%3F https://matrix.org/faq/

Regarding contact discovery, that seems to be the purpose of the identity server: https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-an-identity-server%3F https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-an-identity-server%3F Many people run their own homeserver but I haven’t heard much about identity servers besides the official one at vector.im / matrix.org.

feanaro 6y ago
Identity servers are currently not federated so everyone needs to use the same one if they want to be able to find each other. That's why no one is talking about hosting their own.