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1 year agoYes, it is a “full mesh” diagram. But for each specific “federated” action, it is a simple hub and spoke distribution. The hosting server will send the federated action to each subscribed node. The nodes don’t need to check in with each other for that specific action.
I too believe that Federation is going to have scaling issues. But not due to full mesh
There is no need to “maintain all of the connections”. The server opens a connection, sends the data, then closes the connection.