[omnimus]

Well they are making one big instance nothing else. Also unfortunately it means that you can't possibly federate with matrix.org. I've been running small otherwise perfectly functioning instance for few years for my circle/work as slack alternative on small vps. One time i did the amazing mistake of turning on federation with matrix.org. It immediately killed my servers performance especially when i joined some popular channel. The channels probably have more messages than my whole server combined. And it works the other way too - matrix.org is like sponge sucking other instances.

I guess this is the real problem for me - i would love to federate but i can't possibly police or enforce what servers/channels are small enough that my users can join them.

[Arathorn]

This isn’t anything to do with the size of the matrix.org server; just that synapse needs to be more resource efficient and we need to limit the sizes of rooms small servers try to join. we are doing both.