From ea9aadaab37a56e48668b426757fb9b047474f82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sepehr-safari Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:27:21 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] The number counted a relay that never answered The coverage figure on the Plaza page said 202 of 257 follows reached. It counted a paid relay that refuses the connection itself, so fifty of those people were behind a closed door and the app kept dialling it. Plaza now sets such a relay aside and spends the slot on one that answers. The honest figure is 196, and it is a larger number of people than 202 ever was. --- content/plaza.mdx | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/plaza.mdx b/content/plaza.mdx index 45a8c3f..9cee5a8 100644 --- a/content/plaza.mdx +++ b/content/plaza.mdx @@ -107,12 +107,20 @@ ranked by how many of your follows use each relay, and the connections are chosen by who they reach. Measured on my own account, which follows 257 people: between the relays I chose -myself and the eight it routes to, 202 of them are covered, and 156 of those by -two relays each, so one relay being down does not hide anybody. The remaining 55 +myself and the eight it routes to, 196 of them are covered, and 147 of those by +two relays each, so one relay being down does not hide anybody. The remaining 61 are asked of every relay I have, which is what the app did for everyone before any of this. Adding the routed connections is what moved those numbers; without them the eight relays in my own pool were the whole answer. +Carrying people and answering the door are different things, so Plaza checks the +second one too. The relay with the most of those writers on my account is paid, +and I have not subscribed; it refuses the connection itself rather than the +subscription, so there is nothing to authenticate and nothing to negotiate. A +relay that will not have us after three tries loses its slot to the next one +down and is tried again in six hours. Until Plaza did that, the same count read +202, and fifty of those people were behind a closed door. + It is bounded on purpose: eight routed connections alongside the eight in your own pool, and one is only opened while it would reach somebody not already covered twice, so a tidy follow list opens fewer.