gist/matrix/m.room.server_acl

• m.room.server_acl
  • Allowlist

m.room.server_acl

This event type controls which servers can access the room at all. Be very careful adjusting this.

• https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation#banning-servers-from-rooms-server-acls

Note:

• When sending the custom event via /devtools for the first time, click the Event so it says State Event and asks for State key in addition to type, which can/is left empty as usual.
• Subdomains appear to be implied by specifying 2nd level domain. E.g. matrix.org appears to apply to *.matrix.org at least on Synapse.

{
  "allow": ["*"],
  "allow_ip_literals": false,
  "deny": [
    "matrix.org",
    "mjolnir.matrix.org",
    "disroot.org",
    "privacytools.io",
    "feneas.org",
    "glowers.club",
    "midov.pl",
    "kiwifarms.net",
    "liberta.casa",
    "nitro.chat",
    "nerdsin.space",
    "thisisjoes.site",
    "pp13.space"
  ]
}

Explanations:

• Very big homeservers promoting centralisation of users and power. Also big source of spam, poor moderation and abusive bot performing public logging of members-only rooms.
• Legacy servers that have discontinued, are in progress of discontinuing or are just closed for public, that have PL100 in my rooms. They don’t need subdomains to be denylisted as the subdomain MXIDs wouldn’t have power.
  • disroot.org, privacyguides.io, feneas.org.
• The rest are connected to abusive raids on communities that I am a part of, sometimes even moderate.

Allowlist

This configuration only lets servers I have accounts on in.

{
  "allow": [
    "pikaviestin.fi",
    "mozilla.org",
    "tedomum.net",
    "pirateriot.net",
    "tchncs.de",
    "fedora.im",
    "jae.fi",
    "converser.eu",
    "artemislena.eu",
    "the-apothecary.club"
  ],
  "allow_ip_literals": false,
  "deny": []
}