One of our primary goals on the Synapse last quarter was to make it possible for a new homeserver to join Matrix HQ (a large, public room) in under 1 GB of RAM. And we did it. https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/15/synapse-1-36-0-released
It's not the slimmest beast, in part because Synapse needs to scale up to country-scale deployments, but its ability to scale down has significantly improved over the past year.
That said, Dendrite and Conduit (https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/) are exciting projects which will optimize for different operational contexts.
It's not the slimmest beast, in part because Synapse needs to scale up to country-scale deployments, but its ability to scale down has significantly improved over the past year.
That said, Dendrite and Conduit (https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/) are exciting projects which will optimize for different operational contexts.