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You are not wrong at all.

That said, self hosting matrix seems to be similarly hard to execute at this point in time - simply too many opaque and moving components on the server side.

The riot client is also incredibly slow for my taste.




Installing Synapse is very easy actually with Pip, however as this OP showed that using your own identity server is also necessity. FOr that you want https://github.com/kamax-matrix/mxisd


But this is what I've been pointing at; to self host XMPP with multiple domains and per domain settings, I need prosody, nothing else. Not identity server, no video servers, etc. This is the based of my problems.


on what platform is riot slow? if android, give riotx a try - it’s roughly 6x faster.

in terms of too many opaque moving components serverside; the baseline is just a homeserver. pip install matrix-synapse and off you go. configure your client not to use an identity or integration server if you are worried about them.




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