This is literally the saving grace for Matrix in my opinion. As can be seen with Mastodon, federation tends toward centralization of the servers if there's even an incremental benefit to doing so and nothing encouraging otherwise.

Matrix at least seems to have fewer barriers to usability/functionality when self-hosting, which decreases the detriments of self-hosting and slightly lowers the drive to centralize, but until P2P is default standard for clients the convergence is likely to remain with a mostly centralized federation infrastructure target than a heavily decentralized one.

Thank you, btw. I know it's a hard problem, but there is no substitute for going P2P as far down as you can. To my understanding, there is profound moral merit in your work.

Thanks for the official response; I look forward to P2P Matrix.