Can you give a rough idea about how long it will take for Dendrite to be ready? I want to run a homeserver for friends, but I'd like to go straight to Dendrite and not have to deal with Synapse if possible.
tl;dr: Synapse is getting (much) better; i wouldn't wait for Dendrite but give Synapse a go on Py3 instead for now.
that said, once Dendrite lands, it should be 1-2 orders of magnitude more efficient by most metrics :)
Whether that's a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but I'm a bit skeptic towards complicating things from the get-go.