Custom entry points to the Matrix/Riot federation

Allmende.io is already federating home server channel directories a little via https://github.com/allmende/matrix-riot-docker/blob/master/config.allmende.json#L23-L27. Should we maybe also fork https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to for librehosters to run an independent alternative to https://matrix.to/ announcing our open Matrix client entry points? If we integrated something like this into our Riots, the permalinks could end up much nicer and much more easy to use for end users.

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not sure thats so useful, we can always use a url directly for riot, the matrix.to also gets bit confusing for users in my experience. we tried that for wehost and it didnt get much use

In fact matrix.to is not helping the decentralisation case, as it binds new users to the riot.im client and the matrix.org home server. A federation of multiple sign-up possibilities with the link would mirror joinpeertube.org or joinmastodon.org functionality. joinmatrix.org can then also be asked to provide such an interface globally, federatedly.

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