I've mentioned this here before, but it bears repeating

> Maybe some day I will be less bitter. I mean, Matrix is free, how much can I really be angry if it didn't work how I wanted it to. But, it's hard. I tried to buy in hard, and wound up making a lot of trouble for me and a small group of people that I inadvertently looped into my own mess. I trusted Matrix because it seemed to be the leading option, but definitely I will now be much, much more careful before adopting an ecosystem into my life and the life of people around me. For example, I still have no ActivityPub server... Maybe it's better if I just wait and see what happens there before jumping in, if I'm going to. Sorry this is your experience - my only small comment on this last part is here: if there's no financial incentive to keep things running then it is very possible that they won't. Money isn't some evil thing we should alternatives to. It's how we value relatively our time…

This doesn't really excuse it, but to give you some idea of why Element haven't spent any time on dendrite right now, here's a sample of active servers on the federation as of today: 2025-12-01 synapse : 10068 (85.8%) conduit : 476 (4.1%) dendrite : 369 (3.1%) continuwuity : 303 (2.6%) To add on to that, none of their customers use it, and there's no real community around it, unlike the independent Conduit-family servers that make up that remaining 11%. Dendrite was a bet for two things: Could they make synapse faster? Yes. Synapse is faster now, and Synapse Pro is apparently even faster. And, can we make Matrix peer to peer? They ran out of money, and didn't have any customers who would fund it themselves. They're left with this project that is idling without a community, a customer, or a reason to exist. Apparently, they have some funding to do work on the foundational parts of p2p no…