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by lll-o-lll 1239 days ago
Would you say that automerge is useful for applications that don’t involve a human? I’m imagining a cluster of “service registry” services that use automerge as a way to manage shared state between them. There wouldn’t be a human to fix a merge conflict, so all possible merge outcomes would need to be well defined.

The CRDT examples I see are all oriented around human collaboration, are they a bad choice for something more akin to a distributed database?

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There is a talk about using CRDT across a server cluster to maintain a social media “like” counter