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by throwaway892238 1502 days ago
And in today's world all data needs to be federated between national borders anyway. Try doing business in China if the user data isn't stored in China. Or Russia. Or the EU. Modern designs need the data layer to be forked between regions, not replicated, with merges between the forks.

On top of that, most replication systems are brittle and create logistical and administrative headaches. If you can get by with just rsync, do.