Are there ressources that help you find the right Matrix server software in 2026?

There’s Conduit, continuwuity, Tuwunel and Synapse, but what are the differences between them? Which one should I choose when all I want is a homeserver that allows E2EE, federation (optional), voice calls, screen sharing, reliable mobile notifications and that ideally isn’t a ressource hog (aka what people say about Synapse)?

  • stratself@lemdro.idEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m using Continuwuity.org (also a Rust-based server and forked from the same former project as Tuwunel) so I’ll name a few that this one lacks:

    • Synapse Admin UI (helps a lot in large server setups)
    • Ability to purge rooms and some history (Rust servers use rocksdb with high compaction, so not a high priority for them)
    • Matrix Authentication Service (aka next-gen OIDC-based authn)
    • Ability to become a notary server (maintain other servers’ signing keys for faster retrieval by the public)
    • More niceties implemented for Element Call
    • More niceties implemented for encryption

    I don’t think anything except for maybe OIDC would be really needed for a small-scale homeserver, but they do lack them. For me the resource efficiency, storage savings, and ease of maintenance is definitely a larger factor in choosing the server implementation

    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Thanks for that overview, I really couldn’t figure out what I was missing. I’ve got chat and voice working, for my tiny instance that should be enough.