XSF Discussion - 2023-07-22

More Pubsub questions: > When a PEP service receives initial presence [13] from a subscriber's resource including XEP-0115 information that indicates an interest in the data format, it MUST generate a notification" How does that work in federation? Must PEP services attempt to keep track of the online-state of subscribers on remote domains? Can that even be done, reliably?

lovetox, my use case is resilience in adversarial environments. government crackdowns and the like.

still i would argue its a rare event, definitly nothing that needs full automation

so your contact has 3 addresses, and one is offline, pick the other one

or do you expect government taking down everyday X servers, and your contacts everyday registering X new accounts

you might want to switch to another protocol in this environment, particular one without a server

like, the AFK protocol, possibly connecting via a PUB