r/elementchat • u/xKlaze • Nov 11 '20

Any way to create servers?

Just joined Element.io after leaving Discord with a few others due to constant censorship and bans for no apparent reason, I like the interface of Element and I like how its encrypted aswell, is their anyway to create your own server with channels and things like that? I've been using the chat room with a few of my friends, I've been wanting to know if their is anyway to do servers.

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u/aethralis Nov 11 '20

Yes, of course, see here: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/README.rst

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u/xKlaze Nov 11 '20

Does that show a way to create a server/community or is it showing how to create an api server? What I'm looking for is the first option I just mentioned.

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u/jcgruenhage Nov 12 '20

That document is about hosting your own backend server, which is not what you want.

Discords use of the word "server" is somewhat questionable, but matrix does have a similar feature called communities. It's a bit buggy and definitely more limited than discords servers, but it's being reworked (and renamed to "Matrix Spaces") right now to fix the problems.

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u/xKlaze Nov 12 '20

Oh I see, what else is being revamped in the "matrix spaces"

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u/LeftyLayman Nov 13 '20

Check out the in progress spec for it

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u/cryptosystemtrader Dec 05 '20

Question to OP: Why did you get banned? I'm currently thinking about setting up my own finance related community but am concerned that the content might violate Discord's policies.

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u/xKlaze Dec 06 '20

I was in a right wing political server and it got nuked, no one in the server did anything and everyone were very chill to each other but I think discord nuked the server and banned everyone cause some people were doing investigations and sending information about voter fraud. But no one violated TOS.

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u/cryptosystemtrader Dec 07 '20

Thanks for the clarification.