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- * processing push by bluntly running the rules for each user
- * processing push twice because the pushers still run the rules themselves rather than pulling out of the event_actions table
- * consequently converting events back & forth between objects & dicts when processing
- * fetching all the current ephemeral events for each room on an incremental sync to get the user's read receipt
- * doing 2 more db queries per room at sync time to get the unread notif count