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when a user on a server is in a room it is "hosting" the room so if the server the room was made on goes down, everyone who's not on that server can still talk in the room, that does make the hardware requirements higher compared to XMPP for sure which is a downside but I do feel like the positives outweigh the negatives personally at least
Proper backup protocol raises HW requirements. But if you want to do something right, it's just the cost of doing business. There's the old saw, "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?" But there may not be an opportunity to do this one over.
I foresee moneyed interests working steadily, diligently, relentlessly (with paid labor!) to help this entire effort fail. The success of this concept represents the loss of inestimable billions to today's dominant platforms. Those corporations will, as always, work hard toward their self interests.