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+NOTE: this is Beeper's legacy synapse fork, for latest updates see:
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++ `Synapse: Beeper Edition <https://github.com/beeper/synapse>`_ (upstream + customizations, not a GitHub fork)
++ `synapse-fork <https://github.com/beeper/synapse-fork>`_ (direct fork of upstream where we contribute back)
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