Filtering/flag was my concession, if you are going for a draw i.e. win/lose/draw.

But here's a thing… IIRC this is a F(L)OSS project. So anyone aligned with, i.e. those bullies who attack all over the Federation while screaming their "special victimhood" status is free to make a fork or their own copy and decide what is Politicaly Correct on their own copy.

Btw, One of my fellow "Community Stewards", a fellow maintainer ("janitor") of many rooms stated that bunch is so afraid of being "oppressed", they became opressors!!! I agree 100%.

I was really only talking about illegal stuff. If you want it removed, the whole thing is moot.

Porn filtering should probably be by room. Homeservers could have many rooms with vastly different topics. I see no advantage to tagging them. How we add nsfw tags is a whole different topic. We should still honor description tags.. but maybe also offer description matching as well? Looking for keywords like “sex” might be sufficient to catch the rooms without proper category tags.

a13xmt: In case you had not thought of it, I suggest extracting the info' from the Hello-Matrix List before it's "curated"; JSON links at the bottom. The JSON has more info'.

Just the Homeserver URL/URI info' for all 84 listed Homeservers is here, and of those, the 38 listed Public Homeservers are filtered here.

Do we want servers that are private or not federating? We won’t be able to pull many if any stats from them and will not be able to index rooms.

Perhaps for completion.. but I can’t really think of a use for storing them. It would just be a list of domain names

The "private" Homeservers are basicly the ones not open for registering MXIDs. I for one would like to know if a company with goods and services I use, has a Matrix Homeserver so I can get product support, this withOUT constantly trawling teh intervebz.

And I do NOT support the Social Graphing Opt-Out nature of that Voyager/traveller 'bot that puts individual MXIDs on it's Social Graph, showing the rooms where MXIDs are present. It's too creepy and invasive of privacy.

But anyone may see a list of Homeservers in a room, just by clicking on a link within view.matrix.org .

colonelkrud: You're just determined to FUD on this project as a "Concern Troll", huh? Do you work for Facebook®?

A burgenoning list will dilute the percentage of Homeservers a few cry about, among many others.

Homeservers not open to anyone registering a MXID are not the same as an offline Homeserver. But for historical and other purposes, perhaps the dead or non-Federating Homeservers should be pushed to the bottom of the list. Instead of wondering if a Homeserver is offline or just not reporting presence, we could just check the list.

I can ACL ban certain Honeservers from rooms. This might be done unilaterally at the Homeserver level too. It does not mean nothing is public.

Mastodon has all instances available on one static list, even the ones where connectivity is questioned. I suggest waiting until Matrix is more populated before purging the list as, AGAIN, more Homeservers on the list gives SJW-Crybullies less to focus upon.

You type "we" a lot, as if you are officially affiliated with this project. I type, i.e. "The project could have…".

I don’t understand how ACL bans have anything do do with the public visibility of servers.

If a server does not host any rooms with the permissions to be publicly visible, does not allow registration, and does not provide local addresses to public rooms.. it’s basically dead to us. We can check the version it is running and that’s it.

Keep in mind the scope of this project:

”We aim to make rooms more searchable and descriptive, so the users can explore thousands of rooms and become a part of the network shortly.”

Since it’s a git repo, you’ll be able to check if anything has been removed.

do you want a blockchain or an overcomplicated way to store removed servers?