Hey, I’m fortunate enough to upgrade my home-server. I’d like to make some future-proof decisions. Which Matrix server do I choose? Dendrite? Conduit?
I like the candidate to be halfway well maintained, have active development during the next 4 years… Would be nice if it had a solid base and wouldn’t hog that many resources. I’m okay if it still has some rough edges as long as they get ironed out in the near future.
It needs to provide service to me and a few friends and family. Audio calls would be nice and I definitely need it to connect to the Mautrix-WhatsApp/-Signal bridges.
Did I miss something? Is there another good server implemention apart from Synapse/Dendrite/Conduit?
Bonus questions:
- Is Synapse the only server that can connect to SSO? Ideally I would like to maintain the user accounts via Authentik/LDAP/…whatever…
- Is there a server that can handle multiple domains? Like an e-mail server that I can just tell “you handle mail for the following 5 domain names?”
Synapse if you just want everything to work. Conduit (or its fork, conduwuit) if you’re okay missing some features but want an efficient Matrix server.
Dendrite has lost development velocity and that’s starting to become a problem. I wouldn’t use it in a fresh install today.
I don’t think SS0 is supported very well and I believe I’ve heard they’re planning on changing how it works, but I don’t remember the details. If you need SSO, you may need to stick with Synapse.
For your disk space issue, there are tools to compress room state and delete old media to keep disk space usage down.