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How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 hours ago by chasteinsect@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi. I'm kinda of a noob in the world of self-hosting and matrix, for that matter. But I was wondering how heavy is it to host a matrix server?

My understanding how matrix works is each participating server in the room stores the full history and then later some sort of merging happens or something like that.

How is that sustainable? Say in 5 years matrix becomes mainstream and 5 people join my server and each also join 3 different 10k+ people rooms with long histories. So now what I have to account for that or people have to be careful of joining larger rooms when they sign up in a smaller-ish server?

Or do I not understand how Matrix works? Thanks.

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[–] Eldaroth@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Yeah you could consider it old school, or maybe just a product of another time were people didn't mind to use multiple software for different uses.

I for one don't mind using Mumble for voice and XMPP for text chat or one to one calls for example.

I don't have a computer or smartphone so I only can install one app and that's it. And I know I might be in the minority when it comes to that, at least compared to the general public. For gods sake it's already hard to get people to install a second messenger app, not even trying to get them off WhatsApp or other meta crap...