Yes, Synapse is resource hungry - but it also does a lot more than a typical XMPP server. Meanwhile, we're finally making progress with small footprint homeservers for Matrix. shrug
Than allowing for messaging or "social network"-like features?
From the user in practice, Matrix and XMPP (IM) are the same. These protocols might have made different technical choices but the user still only wants to send message and do various other things that both these protocol support. So not replicating all that data is actually a feature IMO.
Than allowing for messaging or "social network"-like features?
From the user in practice, Matrix and XMPP (IM) are the same. These protocols might have made different technical choices but the user still only wants to send message and do various other things that both these protocol support. So not replicating all that data is actually a feature IMO.