Re:“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]
by Arathorn on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:23AM
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1. About 30% of the visible users on Matrix are on Matrix.org. So, yes.
2. Almost all public rooms seem to have users from other servers.
3. Account portability/multihoming is in the works at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787
* If matrix.org went away tomorrow, is there enough capacity in the rest of matrix for users to migrate to.
* Federation only exists when a channel has users from multiple homeservers on it - how many small/medium channels only exist on matrix.org?
* People's identities are tied to their home server. You would be userfoo:matrix.org - if matrix.org went away, how would you find all your contacts again?
Points 1 and 2 would be addressed by more capacity and more independent homeservers, point 3 would require some sort of multi-homing.