Post #2929814

2026-02-22 17:26 UTC

Those "advanced Synapse features" are what the question is, IMO. I set up a server the other day and went with Tuwunel because I couldn't figure out what the mysterious missing features actually were.

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@stratself@lemdro.id 2026-02-22 19:26

I'm using Continuwuity.org (also a Rust-based server and forked from the same former project as Tuwunel) so I'll name a few that this one lacks: - Synapse Admin UI (helps a lot in large server setups) - Ability to purge rooms and some history (Rust servers use rocksdb with high compaction, so not a high priority for them) - Matrix Authentication Service (aka next-gen OIDC-based authn) - Ability to become a notary server (maintain other servers' signing keys for faster retrieval by the public) - More niceties implemented for Element Call - More niceties implemented for encryption I don't think anything except for maybe OIDC would be really needed for a small-scale homeserver, but they do lack them. For me the resource efficiency, storage savings, and ease of maintenance is definitely a larger factor in choosing the server implementation

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