From 94e1033030259652a34f1be15a6194af7eeab075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aminda Suomalainen Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 15:23:29 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] matrix: why so many accounts? because soft-failures mess things up --- pages/matrix.markdown | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/pages/matrix.markdown b/pages/matrix.markdown index ee0ddcc..b5d313e 100644 --- a/pages/matrix.markdown +++ b/pages/matrix.markdown @@ -493,6 +493,10 @@ My reasons for that are many and I am often proved correct in them. homeservers to sync ACL bans in the worst cases. It also resulted to a lot of state resetting so the affected rooms never got cleaned up as the spam users kept coming back and clients had issues handling so inflated rooms. + - Federation also fails when a spammer sends messages after getting banned + and thus moderation bots fail to remove messages from them as those don't + get to the banning server. Thus moderators need more accounts again. + - [matrix-org/synapse#9329: Soft-failures make federated bans racy and frustrate redaction](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9329) - State resets keep happening and thus I cannot trust other accounts than the one which created a room in question stay as power level 100. - Homeservers come and go, sometimes with little to no warning. As I have many