dendrite

There's an official Golang rewrite called dendrite: https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite it has few start because they recentyl migrated it from the original repo (https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite) Development is not fast but it's going on, and it's currently on beta. I haven't tried it, I selfhost a synapse server which I used with friends, and with docker it wasn't hard to set up/maintain after the initial effort.

We replaced Matrix's custom authentication protocol with genuine OIDC: see https://areweoidcyet.com/ and the rest of this thread for details. Therefore, we needed a basic Matrix-aware OIDC identity provider which could ship with Synapse and other homeservers in order to auth users (and optionally delegate to fully fledged IdPs like Keycloak). So we wrote matrix-authentication-service (MAS) in Rust, which is released as FOSS: https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-authentication-service. This is released as a separate project because: a) it's written by a different team, b) it's intended to power OIDC auth for other servers than Synapse. For instance, https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/pull/3493 is the pull to make Dendrite support OIDC via MAS. In future, we may end up for admin convenience also bundle it by default inside FOSS Synapse

> That the new Element mobile client only supports Synapse was a huge red flag. This is not true. Element X requires Matrix 2.0, which is currently only in Synapse because it has to land somewhere first. But Dendrite is implementing it (best effort, thanks to an amazing community contrib) too: https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/pull/3493 and at conduwuit (one of the conduit forks) is too: https://github.com/girlbossceo/conduwuit/pull/666 There is absolutely nothing trying to lock EX to synapse.

No, not cancelled. Just not being developed with dayjob funding currently (as there is none). This isn’t the first time it’s been in that state, and it returned before: https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite/graphs/contributors shows rumours of its death are exaggerated. But it’s certainly stuck evolving on a best effort basis for now (thanks to its old team working on it in their free time, basically).

It continues to be developed by matrix https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite