List of Public Matrix Homeservers

This is a list of public Matrix homeservers as compiled by the author of this guide. Support for this list is provided at #public_servers:tchncs.de. Remember:

For long-term usage, choose a homeserver that you trust, is properly federated, has a high version number, has an environment suitable to your use, and is designed to last.
Any homeserver you choose gets to access all the unencrypted data about your account!
It bears reminding that all participants of public discourse should foster a respectful environment, and that homeserver operators should discourage disruptive behaviour. As such, this list excludes homeservers that are known to harbour bad actors. Refer to Criteria.
For homeserver owners: You should implement MSC1929.
This list is also available as a JSON. Clients are welcomed to implement it as long as sufficient credit is given.

Disclaimer:

Inclusion does NOT imply any opinion (affiliation, endorsement, etc.) on individual homeservers, nor any guarantee regarding their availability.
This list is provided “as is.” Any dispute regarding your account on one of the homeservers should be resolved between you and the operator(s) of the homeserver.

See Legends for column explanations.

Open registration

Alphabetically-ordered by the homeserver name.

Homeserver name	Jurisdiction (and Server location)	Rules	Privacy Policy	Note	Registration method	Version
0wnz.at	Austria	No	No	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
activism.international	Germany	Yes	Yes	Left-wing; general host	In-house Element	1.61.1
agdersam.no	Norway (Germany)	No	No	Regional	In-house Element	1.61.1
archoslinux.cz	Czech Republic (Germany)	Sort of	No	In Czech; accessory	In-house Element	1.61.1
arcticfoxes.net	US (UK)	Sort of	Yes	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
aria-net.org	Italy?	Yes	Yes		In-house Element	1.61.1.arianet.1
asozial.org	Germany	No	No	In German; left-wing	In-house Element	Dendrite 0.8.8+83797573
bachgau.social	Germany	Yes	Yes	In German; regional	In-house Element	1.61.1
badstuebner.biz	Germany	No	Unclear	In German; personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
buyvm.net	US	No	No	Hosting provider; accessory	In-house Element	1.61.0
bytes4u.de	Germany	Yes	Yes	In German; personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
byzero.dev	Germany	No	No	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.1
cat.casa	Germany	Yes	Yes	General host	In-house Element	1.60.0
catgirl.cloud	Germany	Yes	Yes	General host	In-house Element	1.61.1
chagai.website	Switzerland	No	No	Personal; Residential	In-house Element	1.59.1
chatcloud.net	Austria (Germany)	Yes	Yes	Relationship-oriented?	In-house Element	1.49.2
chatwave.org	Germany	No	Yes	In German; operated by yatrix.org	In-house Element	1.61.1
chrrreeeeesss.com	US	No	No	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
club1.fr	France	No	No	In French; tech collective¹	See info page	1.61.1
comm.cx	Japan	No	No	Uses Cloudflare	`comm.cx`	Error!!
community.rs	US	No	No	Rust-oriented; Uses Cloudflare	In-house Element	1.61.1
converser.eu	France	No	No	In French	See info page	1.59.1
crossbach.de	Germany	No	Yes	In German; personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
das-labor.org	Germany	No	Sort of	In German	In-house Element	1.61.1
data.haus	Germany	Sort of	Yes	General host	In-house Element	1.60.0
duesen.chat	Germany	No	Yes	In German; operated by yatrix.org	In-house Element	1.61.1
egora.org	Finland?	No	No	Right-wing	Tutorial	1.34.0
envs.net	Germany	Yes	Yes	General host	In-house Element	1.61.1
erfurt.chat	Germany	No	Yes	In German; regional tech collective	In-house Element	1.0.0
exarius.org	France	No	Sort of	In French; tech collective	See info page	1.47.1
filik.eu	Czech Republic	No	No	²	`chat.filik.eu`	1.61.0
flieger.chat	Germany	No	Yes	In German; operated by yatrix.org	In-house Element	1.61.1
freiburg.social	Germany	Yes	Yes	In German; regional tech collective	In-house Element	1.61.1
freitrix.de	Germany	No	Yes	In German¹	In-house Element	1.61.1
fulda.social	Germany	No	No	In German; general host	In-house Element	1.61.0
g24.at	Austria	No	No	In German; regional (Graz)	In-house Element	1.60.0
gemeinsam.jetzt	Austria	No	Yes	In German; left-wing	In-house Element	1.55.0
ggc-project.de	Germany	Yes	Yes	General host	Form	1.61.0
glasgow.social	UK	No	No	Regional tech collective	See info page	1.61.1
grin.hu	Hungary	No	No	Personal	In-house Element	1.59.1
group.lt	Lithuania?	No	No	Uses Cloudflare	`group.lt`	1.61.1
hot-chilli.im	Germany	Sort of	Sort of	In German; general host	In-house Element	1.61.0
houtworm.im	Netherlands	No	No	Personal; Residential	In-house Element	1.61.0
inetd.xyz	Netherlands	Sort of	Yes	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
jonasled.de	Germany	No	No	In German; personal	`jonasled.de`	1.61.1
librem.one	US	No	Unclear	General host	SSO	1.38.1
llamarific.social	US?	No	No		In-house Element	1.53.0
magaya.org	Australia	Yes	Yes	18+	In-house Element	1.59.1
magdeburg.jetzt	Germany	Yes	Yes	In German; regional tech collective	SSO	1.60.0
mailstation.de	Germany	Yes	No	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
mandragot.org	France?	No	No	In French; tech collective	See info page	1.57.0
matrix.im	Germany	No	Yes	In German	In-house Element	1.61.1
melroy.org	Netherlands	No	No	Accessory	`melroy.org`	1.61.0
monero.social	US	Yes	No	18+; accessory; crypto	See info page	1.61.1
mstdn.social	Netherlands (Germany)	Sort of	Sort of	General host	In-house Element	1.61.0
mtrx.nz	New Zealand	No	No		In-house Element	1.61.0
nitro.chat	Germany	No	Yes		In-house Element	1.61.0
nltrix.net	Netherlands	Yes	Yes	In Dutch; only stores messages for 1 year	In-house Element	1.61.1
oblak.be	Germany?	Sort of	Sort of		In-house Element	1.46.0
ohai.su	Germany	No	No	General host	In-house Element	1.61.0
ombreport.info	France?	No	No	In French	In-house Element	1.61.1
pcriot.org	Germany?	No	No	Personal?	In-house Element	1.61.0
pragma-messenger.ch	Switzerland	Yes	Yes	In German; hosting provider	In-house Element	1.61.1
prometheus.systems	Canada?	No	No	Tech collective	SSO	1.61.1
privex.io	Belize? (Sweden)	No	No	Hosting provider; accessory	In-house Element	1.51.0
pub.solar	Germany	No	Yes	Tech collective	In-house Element	1.61.1
qoto.org	US?	Yes	No		In-house Element	1.45.1
radiowarnerd.org	US	No	No	Accessory	In-house Element	1.61.0rc1
riotchat.de	Germany	Yes	Yes	In German	Form	1.61.0
sameteem.com	US? (UK)	No	No	Accessory	`sameteem.com`	1.61.1
scyldings.com	UK? (US)	No	No	Accessory	In-house Element	1.61.0
sfunk1x.com	US	No	No	Personal	In-house Element	1.61.0
shibabox.eu	Germany	No	No	Furry-oriented; general host	In-house Element	1.55.2
sibnsk.net	Russia	Yes	Yes	In Russian	In-house Element	1.61.0
socialnetwork24.com	Germany	No	No	In German	In-house Element	1.61.0rc1
studichat.de	Germany	No	No	In German; student-oriented	In-house Element	1.61.1
sykorp.com	Saudi Arabia	No	No	Residential	`sykorp.com`	1.61.1
tauasul.net	? (Germany)	No	No	In Arabic	`tauasul.net`	0.24.1
tchncs.de	Germany	Yes	Yes	General host; only stores messages for a year	In-house Element	1.61.1
techsaviours.org	Germany	Yes	Yes	General host	In-house Element	1.61.0
tedomum.net	France	Yes	Yes	In French; tech collective	SSO	1.61.0
the-apothecary.club	Germany?	Yes	No	Left-wing	In-house Element	1.61.0rc1
tomesh.net	Canada (US)	Unclear	No	Accessory	In-house Element	1.59.1
trygve.me	Norway	No	No	In Norwegian; personal	In-house Element	Error!!
ungleich.ch	Switzerland	No	Unclear	Hosting provider	SSO	1.61.1
unredacted.org	US (Romania)	No	No	General host	In-house Element	1.61.0
utwente.io	Netherlands	Yes	Yes	Regional; student-oriented	In-house Element	1.50.2
vern.cc	US/India? (US/Canada)	Yes	Yes	General host	Form	Error!!
virto.community	? (Germany)	No	No	Accessory; crypto	In-house Element	1.60.0
yatrix.org	Germany	No	Yes	In German	In-house Element	1.61.1
zinz.dev	France	No	No	In French	`zinz.dev`	1.52.0

Conditional registration

Servers with technical restrictions first, then servers that require manual approval, and finally servers that require payment. Within each type, the servers are listed in alphabetically order by the homeserver name.

Homeserver name	Jurisdiction (and Server location)	Rules	Privacy Policy	Note	Registration method	Version
fachschaften.org	Germany	Yes	Yes	In German; student-oriented; requires a German university email address	SSO	Error!!
pikaviestin.fi	Finland	Sort of	Yes	In Finnish; requires a Finnish email address	SSO	1.61.1
aletheia.moe	? (Iceland)	Yes	Yes	Personal	Contact	1.61.1
deuxfleurs.fr	France	No	No	In French; tech collective	Contact	1.60.0
hingst.net	Sweden	Yes	Yes	In Swedish	Contact	1.61.1
hyteck.de	Germany	Yes	Sort of	In German; personal	Contact	1.61.1
libreon.fr	France	Yes	Yes	In French; tech collective	Contact	1.53.0
fsfe.org	Germany	Yes	Yes	Accessory; advocacy	Membership, 10€/month	1.59.0
hadoly.fr	France	Yes	No	In French; tech collective	Membership, 7~25€	1.61.1
sans-nuage.fr	France	No	No	In French; tech collective	Membership, 15€/year	1.59.0

Email address is said to be optional for registration, but is actually required. ↩ ↩²
No reCaptcha needed if using SSO, but email address is used as MXID username (eg. @bob=40example.com:filik.eu). ↩

Why?

Ideally you would host your own homeserver, but not everyone has the means… Anyway, you should use a homeserver other than the default matrix.org because…

It is overloaded at times, and
If everyone continues to register on the same homeserver, then Matrix will become less decentralized as intended.

In some cases you might also want your MXID to show your affiliation with a specific community.

Criteria

The absolute criteria are:

The homeserver is intended for public registration.
- Generally, inclusion is based on either my interpretation of information about the homeserver, or explicit consent from the homeserver operator(s).
- Homeservers that grant accounts on approval must have such process accessible to the general public.
- Homeservers may disable registrations temporarily, in which case the list will temporarily exclude them.
The homeserver name must be a second-level domain (so example.com is acceptable, but matrix.example.com is not). See Synapse documentation.
The homeserver does not operate through a free TLD, specifically those offered by Freenom (due to risks of takeover by fraudulent entities).
The domain that the homeserver is on must have at least one meaningful web page (including Element).
The homeserver is neither matrix.org nor operated by Element Matrix Services (previously known as Modular).
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. It is used on many popular public rooms.
- #matrix-org-hs-tos-bl:matrix.org: matrix.org Homeserver Terms of Service ban list.

Some homeservers are excluded from this list on content grounds. Inclusion in other reputable ban lists may also be grounds for exclusion from this list.

Legends

From left to right:

Homeserver name: This is the part that follows your username. For example, my ID is @austin:tchncs.de, where austin is my username and tchncs.de is the display name of the homeserver. See here for a technical explanation.
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?: The existence of written rules/ToS for all users on the homeserver. Note that rules can only be considered if they apply to all activities (not just those in specific rooms) of a user, and if they are published in a webpage (including but not limited to /_matrix/consent). An “unclear” or “sort of” (colored yellow) means that the rules’ scope or wording is unclear.
Privacy Policy?: The existence of written privacy policy for all users on the homeserver. Generally, most parts of the “Understand how your data is used” notice apply network-wide. Note that a privacy policy can only be considered if it is explicitly applied to the Matrix homeserver, is published in a webpage (including but not limited to /_matrix/consent), and is not a copy of the aforementioned notice. An “unclear” or “sort of” (colored yellow) means the privacy policy’s scope or wording is unclear.
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. Anti-features are italicized.
- Age restriction: Matrix is 16+. Homeservers that require users to be older are specified.
- “Accessory”: The homeserver is specifically intended for rooms related to the operator (usually a project), so please be considerate in listing rooms in the public room directory. However, the accounts can be used to access other federated rooms as well.
- “Residential”: The homeserver may be hosting on a residential internet connection.
- “…-oriented”: The homeserver is intended to serve the mentioned purpose.
- “…-inclined”: While the homeserver is not specifically intended to serve any purpose, it is nevertheless used for the mentioned purpose.
Registration method: Exact registration procedure. Those are tested (but not necessarily thoroughly) on the official Element web client and, in most cases, should work for other clients as well.
- “In-house Element”: You may register using the Element client hosted on the homeserver, which is linked. This is usually due to reCaptcha domain restriction.
- “Form”: You may register using the linked form.
- “See info page”: Refer to the page linked in the “server name” column.
- A domain: After clicking “Create Account” and “Edit,” enter the domain as specified in this column (without https://) to create an account on this homeserver. This discrepancy is usually due to the misconfiguration of .well-known.
- “SSO”: The homeserver requires single sign-on for authentication. You must create an account through the link prior to creating an account on the Matrix homeserver itself. Usually, the account can be used to access other services offered by the homeserver operator.
Version: The software version of the homeserver, updated every 6 hours by a GitHub Action.
- Unless indicated otherwise, the homeserver is running Synapse, where versions 1.61.1 and above (coloured green) is recommended to address a security issue. Homeservers running deprecated versions, namely those prior to 1.61.1, are coloured yellow.
- Homeservers that use Dendrite are not coloured.
- “Error!!” (coloured red): The homeserver cannot be reached at the time of checking. This is usually occasional, as frequent downtime are grounds for exclusion from this list.

Other Matrix homeserver lists

asra.gr’s list: A raw dataset of homeservers that allows (but are not necessarily intended for) public registration.
CHATONS list: A list of homeservers hosted in France that adhere to certain ethical standards. Some may require membership.

This list was originally located at AustinHuang.me.

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