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matrix: expand upon why so many accounts and brief history of dead homeservers
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@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ I also have a [txt with a list of all my accounts](/txt/matrix.txt) which [has S
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- [That doesn't help me](#that-doesnt-help-me)
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- [Personal questions](#personal-questions)
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- [Why so many accounts?](#why-so-many-accounts)
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- [Brief history of my experiences with dead homeservers](#brief-history-of-my-experiences-with-dead-homeservers)
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- [Why do you use Matrix URI scheme instead of matrix.to?](#why-do-you-use-matrix-uri-scheme-instead-of-matrixto)
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- [Why does one of your accounts have capital letter in the username?](#why-does-one-of-your-accounts-have-capital-letter-in-the-username)
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- [Which client do you recommend?](#which-client-do-you-recommend)
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@ -336,7 +337,49 @@ sending raw events in JSON to them.
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#### Why so many accounts?
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In my opinion it's preferable to have multiple accounts on different homeservers for ensuring decentralisation instead of having a single authority in power and being able to issue commands from multiple servers in case of federation meltdown which multiple rooms experienced during the period of room version 9 before homeserver software started to nag on unintentionally open registration refusing to start. Additionally state resets are a good reason to keep old accounts around.
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My reasons for that are mane and I am often proved correct in them.
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- By having multiple accounts on different homeservers, there is no single
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entity that can decide whether I participate on Matrix or not. This is also
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a benefit of decentralisation in general.
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- In case of federation meltdown, I have multiple entrypoints to send events
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and thus hopefully one of them goes through faster. There have been
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multiple incidents where this could have been useful for room
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administrators.
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- Matrix homeservers used to allow open registration with no kind of
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protection and no warnings they are being ran with that configuration
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until some time before room version 10 was released. This
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allowed multiple rooms to be spammed trivially and it took days for all
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homeservers to sync ACL bans in the worst cases. It also resulted to a lot
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of state resetting so the affected rooms never got cleaned up as the spam
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users kept coming back and clients had issues handling so inflated rooms.
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- State resets keep happening and thus I cannot trust other accounts than the
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one which created a room in question stay as power level 100.
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- Homeservers come and go, sometimes with little to no warning. As I have many
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functioning accounts generally with power levels set, homeserver migrations
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take me less effort than going through every room and ensuring just now
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created account has power.
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##### Brief history of my experiences with dead homeservers
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Believe my concern on homeservers coming and going or not, no one is safe.
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1. 2018-09-07: [Disroot.org announced Matrix closure](https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure).
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1. 2019-04-12: [Matrix.org was compromised](https://matrix.org/blog/2019/04/11/we-have-discovered-and-addressed-a-security-breach-updated-2019-04-12)
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resulting the homeserver being down for a while, some integrations even
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longer and the XMPP bridge returned months later.
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1. From Disroot I moved to Feneas thinking that homeserver being a paid
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membership benefit would help it to stay up and be reliable. However in
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late 2021 and early 2022 we decided to disband the association due to
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COVID-19 pandemic, lack of volunteers, lack of money (which wasn't helped
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by [Finnish money gathering law issues](https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.org/issues/30)
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etc.
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1. Around 2023-04-24 the-apothecary.club went down and writing this on
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2023-04-30 I am yet to hear anything about the downtime. Was it by intent,
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will it return, anything? However I haven't been participating their
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community in a long time and I was only using the account for testing
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purposes so the information not reaching me is understandable, especially
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considering their homeserver main room is not federated.
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#### Why do you use Matrix URI scheme instead of matrix.to?
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