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Conduit
A lightweight, self-hosted Matrix homeserver, the backend that actually stores and routes messages.
Conduit is a small, efficient Matrix homeserver: the real server software that stores messages, manages rooms, and federates with other Matrix servers if needed. It's the backend piece, not something anyone interacts with directly.
Element (covered in its own guide in this Library) is the client that connects to it. Running a lightweight homeserver like Conduit instead of the heavier reference implementation (Synapse) keeps resource usage low for a small, personal deployment.