decentralization takes by people who have never been subject to using moxie's software are uninteresting
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I mean I thought it was widely agreed upon that his take on federation is shite but until Matrix is more mature S4L is the best game in town. Better than T6M, at least.
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turning presence on with matrix federation enabled is a good way to turn your server into molten slag made of latency without a fundamental rewrite of the server-to-server API system so yeah
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my analysis from working on it also mostly came down to "http/1.1 and json-encoding is a bad transport for this" but as far as I know, standardising anything else won't happen?
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(hi I worked on making Synapse suck less for a year and I have many sads about the S2S API)
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My main issue with Matrix aside from the performance issues is an indirect consequence of those.
It's supposedly good at bridging protocols, but the IRC bridge requires having a bot kicking anyone who doesn't send a message for 30 days from the Matrix room so you can't lurk.
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specifically that's something the "official" freenode bridge does. If you run your own bridge you can turn it off. (doesn't fix the mess Matrix performance is, but its a working workaround for that specific thing)
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If you run your own bridge, wouldn't you need to get approval to make a bunch of freenode connections? I could try to do it this way, but I'm not so sure about getting approval to have 5000 connections to freenode from a server of ours and keeping that working.
Our Matrix room is currently ~1200 people but that's partly because every month hundreds of people are kicked for not actively sending any messages. I'm not sure what the natural size would be if they only got kicked for not using the room for 30 days as intended but not shipped.
IIRC freenode will ban independent bridges without approval because they cause connection storms whenever the bridge/server restarts, and with the official bridge they can at least throttle the IP.
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Yes, needs permissions and might be problematic for rooms that size - I've only done it for smaller ones.
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