docs(realtime): record the design decisions behind the realtime layer

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Eleven resolved decision tickets plus two research notes, produced with
/wayfinder before any code was written. They live next to the code they explain
rather than in the issue tracker: they are reasoning documents, not open work,
and in a tracker they would drift from the code with no diff and no review.

The value is in the rejected alternatives. Why a counter under a row lock and
not BIGSERIAL, why an event log and not a column on messages, why resync is a
200 with a discriminated body and not a 4xx, why the fan-out trait was deleted
again, why voice is peer-to-peer with a hard six-person cap and no speculative
SFU seam, and why Linux needs a native media stack while the other three
platforms do not.

Two entries record where the spec was wrong and got corrected: created_at was
never a safe sort key, and an unread count cannot be derived without fetching
because seq counts events rather than messages.

Open work is tracked as issues, not here.

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