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Re:Decentralize Messaging by Arathorn on Friday January 31, 2020 @06:15PM (#22206961)
Yes, Synapse is resource hungry - but it also does a lot more than a typical XMPP server. Meanwhile, we're finally making progress with small footprint homeservers for Matrix. shrug
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Re:Decentralize Messaging by ppjet6 on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:06AM (#22209725)
> a lot more

Than allowing for messaging or "social network"-like features?

From the user in practice, Matrix and XMPP (IM) are the same. These protocols might have made different technical choices but the user still only wants to send message and do various other things that both these protocol support. So not replicating all that data is actually a feature IMO.

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