(#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.