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.
Sorry - so the default, recommended settings try to cache absolutely everything from a single group, including cat gifs posted 5 years ago? I’m sorry, but I expected the default settings more… sane?
Well, I wanted to try hosting myself, since I love self hosting things and people keep repeating how amazing Matrix is - my experience (waiting 20 minutes to join a single group, or it simply failing) didn’t convince me. It’s possible that I’m the wrong here, in that case I’m happy to hear solutions.