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That’s good news. Hopefully it will gain traction among individuals as well as a viable Discord alternative
I used to roll on the main matrix server, but I've been toying with the idea of rolling out a server for just myself here at home for a while now, since I can federate with other servers. Just disable making new accounts after I set up my own account and roll out.
When people say "servers" on Matrix, they mean like an "instance" of Lemmy, right? Not a "server," the way it's used in Discord. I'm rather new to this federation thing and I keep getting confused because some services use different terms (e.g. Peertube uses "platform," I think).
Yes, a matrix server is an "instance" of matrix on the larger federated service.
Discord calling their different channels "servers" was really unhelpful because they were never servers to begin with.
Thank you! Your username is hilarious, by the way.