sigh. If you want to play project pedigree games; Matrix was actually the result of two existing teams - one in the UK and one in France, which happened to get acquired by Amdocs and then subsequently spun out once we'd created Matrix.
That page in particular is a pile of FUD; it keeps banging on about "impressive collection of private data being sent to Matrix central servers, even when you use your own instance" which is simply categorically untrue; it looks like they misread the privacy policy of the Matrix.org server at https://github.com/element-hq/policies/blob/master/docs/matr... and somehow assumed it applied to everyone's server instances. It doesn't, any more than https://www.w3.org/policies/privacy applies to a given random webserver on the internet :|
My only complaint with self-hosting matrix is that the canonical python implementation is quite resource-heavy. I was unable to run it on a cheap VPS. I hope that the ecosystem will improve in the future.
I agree. I really prefer Dendrite, their Go server, but development has slowed down lately. Also, because of the financial issues they have been having, I don't have a lot of hope that Dendrite will get a lot of attention. Maybe Conduit(https://conduit.rs) will become more viable instead of Dendrite. We really need a small efficient build with no moving parts, for the self hosters community.
