Your issues with voice calls are likely because you didn’t set them up, and the web client was using the fallback server.

https://sspaeth.de/2024/11/sfu/

Most of the names you can find by looking at the Git history of Element’s repos - but that seems a bit stalkerish to people that have private lives to me.

The error shown in the video is the one that means that they just… didn’t set up video calling? It requires more setup than just the text chat for technical reasons that no service can escape.

Resource usage is a common complaint for Synapse hosters, you might find something like Continuwuity more lightweight

I’d recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/#continuwuity:continuwuity.org for support

That is being worked on as you write :3

If you’re British you can just say continooity. American English speakers have to say contin-uwu-ity :3

We have over a thousand active deployments. We’ve got bugs, but we’re working on them. I’d suggest joining our community rooms :3