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Re:UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notificati... by EGreg on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:49PM (#34097690)
The messages can still be traced to the client picking them up. Cut their networking and the client doesn’t receive the messages anymore… this shows up as a bounced message.

You can accumulate encrypted messages at random urls instead

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Re:UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notificati... by michaelmior on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:15PM (#34098045)
I guess I initially misunderstood what you meant by timing, but that makes sense.
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Re:UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notificati... by skybrian on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:21PM (#34101234)
If nobody in the chat room can know that you lost connectivity, that means you can't do real time chat and might as well use email instead.

Note that a similar thing happens with any two-way conversation; if an immediate reply is expected and there's no reply, it's not a conversation anymore. (For more possible reasons, though.)

Disappearances can't have good error messages if you want plausible deniability. This will make any UI much less user-friendly.

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