homeserver

plural homeservers

1. computingA server that facilitates communication using the Matrix protocol.

   The first two attacks provide a simple confidentiality break by exploiting the homeserver's control over the users and devices that are permitted to join a private room.

   2022 September 28, Dan Goodin, “Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix's end-to-end encryption have been patched”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 27 May 2023

   2 more examples

   The disruption has caused hours of ongoing downtime, in which Matrix.org said the organization had run into issues "rebuilding production from scratch." Websites, databases, synapse, LBs, and media repositories were all impacted. Modular.im homeservers, however, are unscathed.

   2019 April 12, Charlie Osborne, “Matrix.org hack forces servers offline, encrypted chat history lost”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023

   That figure is therefore the total number of addressable users visible to the matrix.org homeserver, but doesn't include servers or users not viewable on the public network or those that don't report usage stats.

   2022 July 15, Richard Speed, “60 million in the Matrix as users seek decentralized messaging”, in The Register, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023