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Frosty
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Should the announcements be specifically on a Matrix instance hosted by Pawb, or could it be hosted on the de facto matrix.org? (Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the upkeep of either. I just happen to run my own Matrix instance.)

Austin Huang ❤️
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@frosty @Draconic_NEO A room does not belong to a specific server: unlike XMPP, a room is copied onto every server that has at least 1 member in it. So as long as there is at least one member from matrix.org, the room is technically on matrix.org.

If you're talking about room aliases, then you can have many aliases on different servers. The main alias is mostly cosmetic though (as long as that server is reliable).

@austin @frosty Oh that's really handy and helps when it comes to mitigating outages.

Though I guess in this situation the biggest issue isn't that the room wouldn't be available (since it's copied and exists elsewhere) but that the accounts of the room operators (which are probably on the same server as that room) wouldn't be available to deliver messages and updates during an outage affecting the self-hosted home server. Which is why it would be best to have something critical like an announcements and support channels on a more multi-purpose server like matrix.org as opposed to a self hosted one, that way the updates can be posted there if pawb.social servers aren't working, since their accounts will be hosted on Matrix.org as opposed to their own server.

MaxmousePM
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Well, the more you all talk about this, the better Matrix sounds!

I think that any extra ways to keep up on ‘server happening’ here would be neat, since not everyone is comfortable with things like telegram, X, etc etc.