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?

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.”

Is it YOUR PROJECT?!?! Keel in mind that in addition to the room index there is a Homeserver index, AND the Hello-Matrix list is no longer neutral nor objective, but biased and subjective.

True. I was just thinking about being more transparent instead of keeping it private.

Then do not push for keeping listing of some Homeservers "private".

TBH I can’t think of much utility for an un-groomed list of homeservers.

For the umpteenth time, if you want to "groom" your own "curated" list, fork this project and maintain your own list!

I did have a thought a while ago about comparing such a list to known domain blacklists. It might be interesting to see the percentage of blacklisted domains that are hosting a homeserver as part of the population

Yeah, THAT seems to be your only agenda in here Censorship and blacklisting. Fork the repo' and operate YOUR OWN list. This project has seen enough pushy people who do not appreciate the effort.

Good on ya' for being able to read.

Fork the project, or just keep a downstream copy on your own hosting. Then you may issue whatever "scope" or prequalification, criteria, or whatever pedantic ambiguous rhetoric you like to justify your arbitrary curated blacklist grooming.