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Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca (2026-10-06 00:35:37)
OK, who are the experts on #DistributedSystems on the #Fediverse? There is a new #FEP for implementing a scalar #LogicalClock in #ActivityPub, #FEP4f18.

I'm especially interested in mitigations for Byzantine faults in the system; right now, it's kind of hand-wavy based on value and trust heuristics:

https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/4f18/
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dave@dthompson@toot.cat (2026-10-06 03:48:14)
@evan Martin Kleppman's paper on byzantine fault tolerant CRDTs may have some relevance (or not, idk)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3517209.3524042

tl;dr - the secret ingredient is content addressing