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What is a swarm? C A swarm is a collection of 5 - 7 Session Nodes which are responsible for the storage of messages for a predefined range of Account IDs. Swarms ensure that your messages are replicated across multiple servers on the network so that if one Session Node goes offline, your messages are not lost. Swarms make Session's decentralized network backend much more robust and fault-tolerant.

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What is a swarm? C A swarm is a collection of 5 - 7 Session Nodes which are responsible for the storage of messages for a predefined range of Account IDs. Swarms ensure that your messages are replicated across multiple servers on the network so that if one Session Node goes offline, your messages are not lost. Swarms make Session's decentralized network backend much more robust and fault-tolerant.
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 19:33:33 JST Aral Balkan
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@bob Hmm, interestingly they don’t use blockchain to store messages (which would be horrible) but apparently they have a proof-of-stake token that they use to incentivise the nodes in a swarm (based on a quick skim of their FAQ).
(I don’t use it myself but I had heard of them.)

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