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Oblomov Nov 12, 2023

I remain convinced that the #indieWeb would have had a much better life if #explicitMulticast #Xcast had reached general adoption
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcast

For the Fediverse, imagine how much less expensive would it have been to host a successful now with thousands of connections is at least on the way out data could have been sent to all federate servers at once, leaving the routing to handle the (de)duplication.

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Oblomov Dec 10, 2022

While we're at it, I'll take the opportunity to mention that #ActivityPub, like any other federation protocol, is an excellent use case for #explicitMulticast (aka #Xcast aka explicit multi-unicast)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcast
It's a pity there hasn't been any major activity on it since 2007
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5058.html>, an inevitable side-effect of the push towards centralization that the Internet has suffered in the last 15 years. One of the many ways in which this killed innovation.