Speaking of Matrix global services occasionally exacerbating one's propensity for migraines, oh look a total outage for the malignant design... oh but they tell everyone a fantastic story:

> "Matrix is a distributed fault tolerated encrypted network of disaggregated nodes!"

except that they deployed via an active/passive two node PostgreSQL backend which just crashed both nodes and took 55TB of network data offline. also their TLS termination is fronted by CloudFlare (anything in back of TLS termination is not TLS encrypted).

- https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/

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