matrix: why so many accounts? because soft-failures mess things up

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Aminda Suomalainen 2023-08-27 15:23:29 +03:00
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@ -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 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 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. 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 - 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. 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 - Homeservers come and go, sometimes with little to no warning. As I have many