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plenty of servers for both though
Couldn't they block them too? Monitor the domains people connect to, check if it's a Matrix server and block it if it is.
for sure and it would end up a game of cat and mouse if they persisted like that, or you could use something blockchain based with a bunch of redundant relays 🤷♂️
You don't need any blockchain there, you need mixnets and hidden services like with tor and i2p
What would a blockchain provide here?
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The overwhelming majority of users are on the main servers. It also impacts self hosted Matrix servers that use the matrox.org identity server.