List of public Matrix homeservers
Stop matrix.org centralization and get your account somewhere else instead!
This is a list of public Matrix homeservers as compiled by me. Support for this list is provided at #public_servers:asra.gr
.
If you operate a private homeserver, go check the asra.gr list to see if it is accidentally set to allow public registrations!!!
Disclaimer: Inclusion does NOT imply endorsement nor any guarantee regarding the future availability of the homeserver. For long-term usage, choose a homeserver that you trust, has policies suitable to your use, and is designed to last. Remember, any homeserver you choose gets to access all the unencrypted data about your account!
List
Alphabetically-ordered by the display name.
Homeserver (Display name) | Operating structure | Jurisdiction (and Server location) | Rules? | Privacy Policy? | Privacy merits/concerns? | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3000.chat | ? | Germany? | No | No | ||
activism.international | Community | Germany | Sort of | Yes | Uses external SSO | |
altertek.org | Community | France | Yes | Sort of | Email optional | |
anontier.nl | Individual | United States | Yes | Yes | Email optional, but must register from website | 17+, “free speech” |
antifash.gay | ? | United States? | No | No | Email optional | Left-wing |
aria-net.org | Community? | Italy? | Yes | Yes | reCaptcha | Throwaway email addresses forbidden |
asra.gr | ? | Germany? | Yes | No | Email optional | 18+, CCC-oriented |
awau.uk | Individual | United Kingdom (Germany) | No | Unclear | Cloudflare; Email optional | |
badstuebner.biz | Individual? | Germany | Unclear | Generic | Email optional | In German |
baytech.community | Community | Estonia (Switzerland) | No | No | Accessory | |
bissisoft.com | Commercial | United States? | No | No | Email optional | |
boba.best | Individual | United States (Germany) | Yes | Same as matrix.org | reCaptcha | |
buyvm.net | Commercial | United States | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | Accessory |
catgirl.cloud | Individual | Germany | No | Yes | Email optional | |
chatcloud.net | Commercial | Austria (Germany) | ToS | Yes | Website has Google/Facebook ads; reCaptcha | |
chrrreeeeesss.com | Individual | United States | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | |
club1.fr | Community | France | No | No | reCaptcha | In French; says email optional but requires email |
community.rs | Individual | United States | No | No | Cloudflare; Email optional | |
converser.eu | ? | France | No | No | Email optional | In French |
crew23.de | Individual(s) | Germany | No | Yes | reCaptcha; Email optional | In German |
cubebuilder.me | Individual | United States? | No | No | Email optional | |
danskungdom.dk | ? | Denmark (Germany) | No | No | Email optional | In Danish |
dark.fi | Community? | Germany? | No | No | Email optional | Accessory; Crypto |
davidberthel.de | Individual | Germany | No | Yes | Email optional | |
decred.org | Community? | United States? | No | No | Email optional | Accessory; Crypto |
demoicracy.org | Community? | United States? | Sort of | No | Email optional | Diversity-oriented |
disrule.org | ? | Romania? | CoC | No | Email optional | Left-wing |
e2e.zone | ? | Germany? | No | No | Email optional | Too concise |
egora.org | Community? | Finland? | No | No | Email optional | Right-wing |
envs.net | Community | Germany | CoC and ToS | Unclear | ||
ewsandor.com | Individual | United States | ToS | Yes | reCaptcha | |
exarius.org | Individual | France | No | No | Email optional | |
exonip.de | Individual | Germany | Sort of | No | Email optional | |
filik.eu | ? | Czech Republic | No | No | reCaptcha | |
freiburg.social | Community | Germany | Yes | Generic | In German; region-specific | |
freitrix.de | Community | Germany | No | Yes | reCaptcha | In German; says email optional but requires email |
ftw.chat | ? | United States? | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | Too concise |
gemeinsam.jetzt | Community | Germany | No | Unclear | reCaptcha; Email optional | In German; activism-oriented |
ggc-project.de | Community? | Germany | Yes | Generic | Email optional | |
inetd.xyz | Individual? | Netherlands | Sort of | Same as matrix.org | reCaptcha; Email optional | |
jn2p.de | Individual(s) | Germany | No | No | Email optional | |
jonasled.de | Individual | Germany | No | No | reCaptcha | In German |
jupiterbroadcasting.com | Community? | United States? | No | No | Email optional | Accessory |
kuecker.eu | ? | Germany | No | No | Email optional | In German |
liberta.casa | ? | Germany? | Yes | No | Email optional | |
libre.re | Community | France | No | No | Email optional | In French |
librem.one | Commercial | United States | No | Unclear | Must register from website | |
librosphere.org | Community | France | No | No | Email optional | In French |
linuxdelta.com | Commercial? | United States? | No | No | Email optional | Accessory |
magdeburg.jetzt | Community | Germany | Yes | Yes | Uses external SSO | In German; region-specific |
mailstation.de | Individual | Germany | Same as matrix.org | Same as matrix.org | reCaptcha | |
mandragot.org | Community? | France? | No | No | Email optional | In French |
matrixim.cc | Individual? | China? (Finland) | No | No | Email optional | |
milkte.ch | Individual | Switzerland? | Yes | Yes | Email optional | |
mint.lgbt | Community | United States? | Yes | Yes | ||
monero.social | Commercial | United States | No | No | Email optional | Accessory; Not run by Monero itself |
nicfab.it | Individual | Italy | Yes | Yes | reCaptcha; Requires phone number and email | |
nitro.chat | Commercial | Germany | No | Yes | reCaptcha; Email optional | |
nixbitcoin.org | Community | Germany? | No | No | Accessory; Crypto | |
nltrix.net | Community? | Netherlands | Yes | No, linked host’s policies instead | In Dutch | |
not.futbol | ? | Iceland? | No | No | Email optional | Too concise |
nth.io | Individual | United States | No | No | Cloudflare; Email optional | Dendrite |
okash.it | Individual | United States? | No | No | ||
ombreport.info | Individual? | France? | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | In French |
pcriot.org | Individual? | Germany? | No | No | reCaptcha | |
perthchat.org | Community? | Australia (Singapore?) | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | Region-specific |
planetdecred.org | Community? | United States? | No | No | AWS; Email optional | Accessory; Crypto |
poenisch.info | ? | Germany | No | Generic | Email optional | |
pwoss.org | Individual? | United States | Unclear | Unclear | Email optional | |
qoto.org | Community? | United States? | Yes | No | AWS; Email optional | “You must be 16 years or older and a S.T.E.M. student or professional to join” |
radicle.community | Community | Switzerland | No | No | Email optional | Accessory |
renaissancemen.xyz | ? | Germany? | Unclear | No | Email optional | Catholicism-oriented |
scyldings.com | ? | United Kingdom? (United States) | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | |
sene.ovh | Individual | France? | No | No | Email optional | In French |
sibnsk.net | Community? | Russia (Germany) | No | No | reCaptcha; Email optional | In Russian |
stux.chat | Commercial? | Netherlands | No | No | Email optional | Operated by mstdn.social |
subtlefu.ge | Individual | United States? (Germany) | No | No | Email optional | |
sudo.is | Individual | Germany | No | No | Too concise | |
synod.im | Community? | Germany | Yes | Yes | In German | |
tchncs.de | Individual | Germany | Yes | Yes | reCaptcha | Only stores messages for a year (can be retrieved from other homeservers) |
techsaviours.org | Commercial? | Germany | ToS | Yes | ||
tedomum.net | Community | France | ToS and CoC | Yes | Uses external SSO | In French |
trygve.me | ? | Sweden? | No | No | Email optional | In Swedish |
ungleich.ch | Commercial | Switzerland | No | No | Uses external SSO | For demonstrative purposes? |
utwente.io | Community | Netherlands | Yes | Yes | Region-specific | |
yatrix.org | Commercial? | Germany | No | No | Email optional | In German |
zinz.dev | Individual | France | No | No | Email optional | In French |
zygoat.club | Individual | Canada? | No | No | Email optional | Too concise |
Criteria
The absolute criteria are:
- The homeserver allows public registration.
- The display name must be a second-level domain (so
example.com
is acceptable, butmatrix.example.com
is not). - The homeserver is neither
matrix.org
nor operated by Element Matrix Services (previously known as Modular). - The homeserver is advertised as public.
- The homeserver does NOT have an ongoing Mjolnir server ban (
m.room.rule.server
) on:#matrix-org-coc-bl:matrix.org
: matrix.org Code of Conduct ban list, which contains homeservers suspected of promoting spam, hate speech, or harassment. It is used on many popular public rooms (that are not necessarily affiliated with Matrix itself).#matrix-org-hs-tos-bl:matrix.org
: matrix.org Homeserver Terms of Service ban list, which contains homeservers suspected of promoting illegal content.
Some homeservers are excluded from this list on content grounds.
Legend
- Homeserver (Display name): This is the part that follows your username. For example, my ID is
@austin:tchncs.de
, whereaustin
is my username andtchncs.de
is the display name of the homeserver. This is not necessarily where the homeserver is: As seen here, the homeserver is actually located athttps://matrix.tchncs.de
. - Operating structure: The type of entity that is operating the homeserver.
- “Individual”: Operated by one person.
- “Individual(s)”: Operated by multiple people that are not considered a “community”.
- “Community”: Operated by multiple people with a clear ideological goal/purpose.
- “Commercial”: Operated by a commercial entity, or an entity that offers paid services.
- Jurisdiction (and Server location): The jurisdiction the homeserver is located within. The server location, if differs from the jurisdiction of the homeserver, is shown in the brackets. Note that generally, homeservers located in Germany are more actively moderated due to legal and social contexts.
- Rules/ToS? and Privacy Policy?: Self-explanatory.
- Privacy merits/concerns?: Notes for the privacy situation of the homeserver. By default, email is required for registration.
- “reCaptcha”: Registering on the homeserver requires a Google reCaptcha to be filled out. This does not apply to logins. Due to reCaptcha configurations, it may be necessary to register on the homeserver’s own Element client.
- “Uses external SSO”: The homeserver uses its own authentication method instead of the methods natively provided in Matrix.
- “Email optional”: Registering on the homeserver does not require an email address. This can offer privacy benefits, but may cause the homeserver to be susceptible to spam.
- Note: Miscellaneous remarks. Note that a homeserver’s theme/orientation can sometimes be seen from the domain itself, in which case it will not be noted down here.
- “Too concise”: Too little information is present about this homeserver.
- “Accessory”: The homeserver is intended to be used to access rooms related to the operator, although the accounts can access other federated rooms as well.
References
- Public servers database by asra.gr
- List of Matrix servers by Tatsumoto Ren
- Matrix Public Homeservers by anchel.nl