@mthld@rage.love https://github.com/erikjohnston/rust-synapse-compress-state is mentioned in the thread, retention policies are pretty new and I haven't read up on those as I prefer keeping everything indefinitely

andyes, Synapse really isn't great, and it's good to tell people what they're getting into, but it's definitely doable to run and imo the Matrix specification is *really* worth it, even if it means throwing a bunch of resources at Synapse