@purism @rae riot is nice enough, but synapse is not very great for server operators like myself. the random cpu and memory use spikes make it so i have to heavily over provision the machine that hosts my home server.
my xmpp server on the other hand, could easily fit on a raspberry pi (moving it there in the near future).
i agree that the clients are shit
tbf that’s the only advantage matrix has: half decent UX