@kett I don't like element and I don't like how matrix.org is ran, but now I am surrounded by gay critters making gay little software that runs on a toaster which immediately thwarts my biggest complaint with matrix (it's heavy)
I am running it on an Intel Pentium 2117U, with 4 gigabytes of DDR3 memory, non-upgradable. Just an old laptop I had, on a home connection (though, proxied because I don't have a public IP Address)
It pulls at most 250MB of RAM despite me being in multiple several-thousand members heavy rooms and barely pulls any CPU ever. I could comfortably limit it to 10% CPU and never see it chug.
Element poured a good bit of money into MatrixRTC, and by now a good bit of clients support livekit-backed MatrixRTC: - Element (and Element X) - Commet - Cinny - Sable - potentially more? idk!
Some of these piggyback over an embedded Element Call widget, some have forked it (Sable) to improve integration, and some have made a fully custom UI (Commet). Regardless, they're interoperable. Voice-Rooms with a chat on the side are also standard now.
