How do you feel about matrix? I've heard it as a counter point to the point you made but never really looked into it.

Matrix is interesting, but could replace IRC or Discord, not email. It also doesn’t have many users, even with bridging, but pretty much everyone has an email account.

Someone is (supposed to) building a proper Email bridge for Matrix through GSOC.

I've heard bad things from people running matrix servers.

IM is also not really a great replacement for email.

> I've heard bad things from people running matrix servers

Could you expand on this? I haven't actually noticed anything detrimental, and resource usage has actually been falling as the dev team makes improvements - though in fairness I'm running it on a beefy server that also hosts Plex, Polaris, and more.

synapse is:

a, fragile, depends on a lot of external libs (eg. hazmat, which needs sslv3 compiles openssl)

b, eats a lof of resources when using medium size and above federated rooms

And there are no other servers ready for production.

I have heard that Synapse is fragile the first time Can you expand?

how's your whitelisting going? that's what killed me: i could never get my keys right and my stuff kept getting filtered. ended up using runbox.