Matrix was built to become the open communication of the web and serve everyone. But, as the Internet and email did, its network effect started with governments. Today, and as proven by the audience in the room, most European governments and several others are either using it or looking at implementing it for their communications. This talk will tell the story of how we got there and why.
Have you tried joining a community with 50k or so users in it on a fresh Synapse instance? Your network gets absolutely beat into the ground because it needs to synchronize with every other instance apart of that community, I have had power outages occur and whenever my server would start back up Synapse would just DDOS my network due to how many request Synapse needs to make to stay in sync.
My poor PiHoles flooded with synapse queries.
Host my own Lemmy instance and have yet to experience the same federation troubles I get with Synapse.
Ha yeah!! I wish there was a way like piefed does where it gets a collection of requests all at once rather than just DDOSing tiny servers.