[caconym_]

> The federation of Matrix seems risky to me to the person self-hosting. I don’t want to host random people’s content. I’ve read some interesting articles about the design flaws of Matrix that led me to believe that it’s not a good option.

You can just not federate.

My experience with Matrix as a "discord replacement" at the scale of a few tens of people is that it works and is stable but is also jank and has a lot of features I don't really care about, federation being one of them. Hence my enthusiasm for a possible alternative.

> What is confusing to you about the community tier? It is basically describing any type of community of people who are not a for-profit business. Groups of friends, non-profits, volunteer groups, etc.

The part that isn't clear to me is how you prove to the Zulip people that you are worthy of being included in that tier. I'm certainly willing to write a few sentences explaining my use case, but the help page is light on specifics.

[dangus]

I'm pretty sure it's just an honor system similar to a lot of similar software.

Corporations tend to self-comply because they don't want to risk failed audits and lawsuits.