• bionicjoey
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    1 year ago

    UUIDs are a computer science concept where you use some math and some black magic to guarantee that you have generated a unique identifier, even in an environment with federation. This concept predates the fediverse since this is needed for lots of different use-cases. Basically anything with horizontal scaling, orchestration, or p2p needs something like this in order to prevent collisions.