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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties by robjan on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:30PM (#25799767)
Try talking with friends / groups on a few different servers (it's decentralised, remember) and you will soon see what scalability issues are. As you add n servers to grow Signal you need n^x for Matrix.
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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties by remirk on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:13AM (#25810104)
That's an odd claim. What's your source?

As a longish time Matrix user I've never experienced scalability issues due to federation. The federation actually works pretty well. Scalability from Matrix comes/came due to the fact that some servers were too popular. Though that is actively being worked on: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-sca...

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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties by sean_pedersen on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:39AM (#25801205)
x=1? But for real good point, I don't know how Matrix scales vs Signal.
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