historically matrix has had perf problems for sure; we are in the final stages of fixing that tho. to quote someone earlier today in one of the community rooms:
> just downloaded element x from f-droid and wowza it just.. loads instantly? can't believe i now live in the age of element being faster than discord
I think federation is currently the biggest tax on performance. Joining even medium sized groups with only a hundred users takes a few minutes and eats up a ton of resources on the server. It got so bad that I had to turn federation off completely. That said, I only have ~1GB of RAM.
1GB is enough for most things and it has been running smoothly since I turned off federation. You’d be surprised how much you can do with 512 MB of RAM. 1 GB is pretty generous
> just downloaded element x from f-droid and wowza it just.. loads instantly? can't believe i now live in the age of element being faster than discord