The whole point of Matrix is that you don't have to use matrix.org to use Matrix. Anyone can host a server and talk to anyone on any Matrix server.

So you're suggesting grandma connects to a different server when setting up the app?

next you're going to tell me grandma should just use IRC instead.

Grandma's hate IRC. The text is just too damn small! How can ya see anything?!

Also so many n00bs !

> Anyone can host a server and talk to anyone on any Matrix server.

I host my web, my email, my XMPP, my TURN/STUN, etc, so I gave Matrix a try. In short: it's horrible. It's insanely resource hungry, both synapse and dendrite, plus dendrite is so not finished it hurts.

Stick to XMPP until Matrix is in an actually usable shape when one doesn't need a small power reactor to run it.

When was the last time you tried? My Synapse is stably hovering around 400M RSS with about 10-15% CPU usage. It has about 20 active users, each with 2-3 devices and is joined in hundreds of rooms on the federation.

> When was the last time you tried?

About an hour ago.

Hmm, interesting. What kind of resource usage do you see, compared to mine?

tried to create an account on app.element.io just now and got:

> Cannot reach homeserver > Ensure you have a stable internet connection, or get in touch with the server admin

wise prediction of yours ;)