@Miaourt >Concretely: community Synapse provides scalability for larger traffic loads via worker processes written in Python. Each worker process uses at most 1 core of CPU (due to Python’s Global Interpreter Lock),
@malte tl;dr: instead of investing development into open source server software they are building a new, closed source, higher performance implementation so they can sell it
So, well, that's kind of bad press for the matrix.org's somehow official for-profit company
That + way too much technical weird decisions in the matrix protocol itself.