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Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? (alien.top)
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Hey guys!

A year or so ago I tried hosting a federated matrix and synapse server. While at the beginning it seemed nice, the moment I tried to join a large room it died completely for 10-20 minutes while blasting my DNS server with 10K+ requests. Sometimes at the end it wouldn't join, while filling the logs with errors. It really didn't seem like a good user-experience. Ironically, one of the groups I tried to join was the support group, but I failed, because it was too big.

I am wondering if it has improved since, or it's pretty much the same.

At the same time, I'm also wondering if there's a good, fast self-hosted alternative, that kinda just works.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My current experience with synapse is that as a single user on my matrix server i somehow managed to have spent the entire 120 gigabytes worth of ssd i dedicated to the service.

I am really not interested in the cat gif from 5 years ago as you say. A retention of 1 week on 99% of the channels I'm in would be overkill. Private messages would realistically not be more than perhaps a few hundred megabytes (besides the media) if ever that much.

I was desperately hoping to consolidate all my messaging services under one client but it doesn't seem like a reasonable ask from the Synapse+Element combo.