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    In those cases, the action will need to propagate back to the home server (that’s where the “hosts of popular communities will get more traffic” comes from), but keep in mind - people usually read at least one or two orders of magnitude more than they write.

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        Absolutely, but a user will only upvote a post once, while they will read it on every reload of their page. (By “read” I mean “fetch it from their local mirror”)

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          Hmm, you could probably extend the protocol to do eventual consistency across instances if that ever becomes a problem, remote instances could keep their own counts and only send aggregated updates.