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+The goal is basically to find a way to semi-automatically build
+a relay structure for queues, in an attempt to supplement ActivityStreams
+with a relay infrastructure to reduce maximum per-node load.
+
+A good primer on the subject is https://gist.github.com/jdarcy/60107fe4e653819138396257df302eef
+which introduces the problem the current RPC interface is causing
+for ActivityStreams caching.
+
+It appears to me that I basically want the combination of
+* BitTorrent, but with queues instead of constant files (meaning that I need to
+  deal with queue positions and slices, and that the queue can grow on one end,
+  and vanish of the other)
+* [episub](https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/pubsub/gossipsub/episub.md)
+  (libp2p's epidemic pubsub protocol, but with persistence/resume, so that
+  you don't loose all changes if you're offline (you just loose the ones which
+  were so old they scrolled out of the round-robin spool db))