Our collective runs Dendrite since alpha, is now on late Beta, but I will only recomend to those that like to tinker and configure things and have patience, Sypnapse is much slower but is been around longer since it was the POC such why is on python, nobody in their mind will run such a service on python if it was not a POC, but it got out of hand and next thing you know there was tons of servers running with the POC so it became the most stable and on pair with the protocol, Dendrite is the one that they always had in mind
you can get a second hand pixel (and wait) before you boot download and install the https://calyxos.org/ ROM is amazing.
Matrix is awesome, but guys try to not use the one node out of thousands(matrix.org) choose another node of people you trust, also avoid using vector.im other than that… matrix FTW.
Please dont share evil links