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And the largest homeserver, matrix.org, is MITM'd by Crimeflare.
Fuck matrix.org, just selfhost.
Doable, but a huge pain in the ass because of conflicts in the protocol. I spent about a year trying to suss them out and come up with a fix but never figured it out.
Any homeserver that federates (even indirectly) with matrix.org will still have practically all the same data shared with it, just not your password.
What passwords where?
The password used to login to the homeserver