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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have no idea, I have zero desire to host a matrix server. But I wanted to have one, I would make sure to check what the actual requirements in terms of bandwidth and storage are and what will happen if I fire up the server.

It's like hosting a TOR exit node and then complaining about all the data going over my network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh, so you never even had a matrix server hosted, but you're telling me I'm wrong. Hahaha!

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

That's normal on this sub. People chime in with their opinion not their experience.

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