| 22 May 2025 |
 Zhaofeng Li |
this approach doesn't work well in a shared chatroom, especially when it needs server cooperation to arrive at a shared room state
It's ugly theoretically (homeservers may never converge to the same state), but in practice it may not be that bad?
| 07:39:02 |
| Zhaofeng Li | right now servers are already missing events naturally and having different views of the room state | 07:39:25 |
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 emily | that results in really bad things though | 07:40:39 |
| emily | silent netsplits that make us replace rooms | 07:40:53 |
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 uep | In reply to @f0x:pixie.town
there is? https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/media_admin_api.html#purge-remote-media-api yes, that's a purge of all remote media, not a garbage collection of media no longer referenced because the events have been redacted. Still works (assuming you weren't hosting the spammer), but: requires action on each server, and is an overly-blunt instrument. | 08:00:50 |
 @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | On a related note, the msc for attaching media to events better, dont recall the ID, is there some mechanism to do it retroactively or no way? Id like to not loose room history if at all possible | 08:03:36 |
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