Well Matrix is junk 🤦‍♂️ After staying up late for several hours (it’s not 2.30am 😳) I was unable to get my Dendrite homeserver to “Federate”. I posted a Federation Failures in the hopes it gets the developers attention, but so far this is honestly a joke.

I honestly can’t believe this simple concept of “servers talking to other servers” is so freak’n hard 🤷‍♂️

(#t47rjwa) @prologic@twtxt.net Maybe it’s harder to get Dendrite working properly (it’s pre-release software after all I guess) but I never had any issue with Synapse, I had it up and running in ~15 minutes. The issue I did have was that it’s a resource hog (mainly because of backfilling large federated rooms) but a few tweaks to caching settings improved that and I’ve been running for over a year with no issues at all.
I do agree it seems over-engineered in many ways, I must say. But overall I’ve been really happy with it and it’s now one of my primary communication platforms.

(#t47rjwa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de that’s exactly what it means 👍
As for clients, I prefer SchildiChat myself, it’s an Element fork with a few improvements. I find FluffyChat too basic, but then I never liked WhatsApp either, which I guess it what it’s trying to imitate UI-wise.