"it works for me" says the white guy who is probably in like 10 chat rooms

meanwhile, i am on hundreds of irc channels that are all pretty much necessary for me to do my work

@ariadne Which ones? What is “it”?

@alwayscurious i don't know, i didn't ask, i just noted that synapse has always blown up on me after a few months when i have tried self-hosting it.

@ariadne Or they ignore all the stuff they do to keep it working.

It works fine as long as you constantly tweak the config and reinstall it daily or somesuch.

@trekkie1701c that’s what i mean. i can do ~nothing to maintain an irc client. maintaining a matrix presence is 100x the effort.

@ariadne @trekkie1701c And it's not even maintaining a server, most matrix clients are really slow and struggling especially with 100 joined channels. Channels do take a long while to join as well, it can take from 15 minutes to weeks to join a channel successfully. Element also gets killed by my kernel's OOM killer a lot, taking much more resources than a traditional IRC client or even an XMPP client.