Post #4205634

2026-07-29 17:01 UTC

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz That's not the only criticism I have. My homeserver has died three times. I gave up. Running a Matrix server is like using a hammer to pound in screws. Synapse is not what I'd call "production-grade" and it's been... what... 10+ years? And nothing else really has feature-parity last I looked. I do not want to run my own anyway. I *can*. I have better things to do with my time. Element (the biggest sponsors of it) work with police forces and told people if they don't like it don't use it. Right here. On Fedi. You can go find the post. I do not want to use Matrix because of the combination of all these things. Especially the last one.

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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-07-29 17:04

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems I've ran Matrix for 6 years and it's never died on me, the hell are you doing with it that makes it die? and don't give me that 'big room' crap, I joined the notorious MatrixHQ room and it survived that too. I'm using <1gb ram for it while using the old clunky Synapse server with Postgres, and Element Call, despite the user count and large rooms. Also if Police is a problem for you you should not use ANY public service, that includes things like Signal; Selfhost Matrix maybe?

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