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    Remove FedSockets · 2c55f7d7
    rinpatch authored
    Current FedSocket implementation has a bunch of problems. It doesn't
    have proper error handling (in case of an error the server just doesn't
    respond until the connection is closed, while the client doesn't match
    any error messages and just assumes there has been an error after 15s)
    and the code is full of bad descisions (see: fetch registry which uses
    uuids for no reason and waits for a response by recursively querying a
     ets table until the value changes, or double JSON encoding).
    
    Sometime ago I almost completed rewriting fedsockets from scrach to
    adress these issues. However, while doing so, I realized that fedsockets
     are just too overkill for what they were trying to accomplish, which is
     reduce the overhead of federation by not signing every message.
    This could be done without reimplementing failure states and endpoint
     logic we already have with HTTP by, for example, using TLS cert auth,
    or switching to a more performant signature algorithm. I opened
    https://git.pleroma.social/ple...
    2c55f7d7