| 15 Apr 2025 |
uep | not really, but almost | 23:02:16 |
emily | e.g. I don't think XMPP groups work like that? | 23:02:18 |
Dandellion | you're right | 23:02:24 |
@emma:rory.gay | xmpp groups are fully centralsied with decentralised IDs | 23:02:41 |
Dandellion | something something linearized matrix | 23:02:44 |
dgrig | They don't, xmpp MUCs are centralized to a single server | 23:02:46 |
emily | right. | 23:03:00 |
emily | I mean "actually rooms aren't owned by any homeserver" is a cool party trick. | 23:03:18 |
emily | but it sure feels like the harms outweigh the costs for us on multiple fronts | 23:03:26 |
Dandellion | It's pretty sick when one goes down and the rest keep talking as if nothing happened tbh | 23:03:47 |
@emma:rory.gay | fun fact: draupnir and mjolnir are written in a way where they kind of just expect you to be running a monolithic homeserver, not synapse with workers | 23:03:58 |
Cat | Explain to me how that is true? | 23:04:13 |
@emma:rory.gay | can draupnir keep up with 500 messages/s? | 23:04:26 |
Cat | That isnt a homeserver size issue. Thats a the bot isnt supposed to scale out that far. | 23:04:53 |
uep | in a sense it doesn't matter.. it's already losing if it has to react and publish more messages to deal with them | 23:05:02 |
@emma:rory.gay | not a single protocol can do redactions without sending more traffic | 23:05:22 |
uep | the fact that attackers send 500m/s as the threshold where the responses are overloaded is more effect than it is cause | 23:06:04 |
emily | I agree when you're talking about people in the room | 23:06:08 |