[pkulak]

I remember I spent about 10 minutes looking into setting up my own Matrix server. Seemed like a good day of work, and then I would still need to figure out how to support media uploads and E2E.

The real kicker is that having the data on my own server is certainly nice, but I just don't think it's less likely to be exposed while I'm holding it vs someone else. I remember when everyone had a self-hosted WordPress blog. Eventually you'd get tired of applying patches every 2 weeks and instantly get added to a bot farm. No thank you.

[profsnuggles]

To be fair installing synapse is fairly easy. Media uploads and e2e should "just work". When I recently changed the VPS I was running it on I set up synapse from scratch in about 15 minutes. Of course I have set up synapse many times.

[pkulak]

You're right. Just found these directions here and it seems far simpler than whatever I was looking at months ago:

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md