The status of Dendrite and its position vs Synapse is covered a bit in the Holiday Update: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022#p2p

The status of Dendrite and its position vs Synapse is covered a bit in the Holiday Update: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022#p2p--dendrite https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update... The relevant section: > The interesting plot twist is that Dendrite development has ended up increasingly focusing on embedded matrix server use cases - particularly to power Peer-to-Peer Matrix, where clients require a server to be embedded within them. So while Synapse has ended up increasingly focusing on large-scale deployments, Dendrite has ended up pursuing smaller instances (which is ironic, given originally it was meant to be the other way round!).