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Matrix vs. XMPP, Security, Privacy, Apps, Efficiency ?
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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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I am hosting a two-person XMPP server now, and it's pretty light on resources. Matrix, however, I am not even sure my VPS would even handle: I've seen multiple people talk about how their servers would explode when someone tries to join a large room. And also there's an issue of every participating server storing chat history/media: my disk is small, I need it for the media on my site!
I am also concerned about how overly prevalent the central matrix.org server is.
all your first points are generally correct, as far as the last one however, that is the entire point in running your own instance. too many uses on matrix.org. all fedi platforms have this issue as well.
That was the point - it's not supposed to happen yet it is there at least for the moment.
I share your concern - matrix is bloated as a protocol. I assume you tried synapse. I wonder how conduit (rust) or dendrite (go) would perform.
I didn't try it, but I read about it and talked to people who did. Two of them ran Synapse and one tried Conduit. The result - Conduit does consume much less but still noticeably more than XMPP (plus the storage concern is still there).
Yes, Matrix.org is a huge problem. Even Mastodon is way more federated.