Some quick questions
Some quick questions
Posted Feb 22, 2019 22:08 UTC (Fri) by wiml (guest, #130596)In reply to: Some quick questions by callegar
Parent article: France enters the Matrix
1: My understanding is that, no, a user account is tied to a homeserver, much like an email address is tied to an email provider; there are plans to make it possible to move or share user ids at some point in the future.
Rooms, on the other hand, are IRC-like in that they aren't associated with any specific server but exist on all servers which have a participant.
2: That's handled by "identity providers" which are sort of outside the core Matrix protocol, and provide a mapping from third-party identifiers (email addresses, phone numbers, personal names, or other identifiers) to matrix user IDs. I don't know what the state of play is for those, really. They exist and have client integration but I think the system is still more of a usability hack than a polished design.