Oh neat! I worked on Secure Scuttlebutt, so this is right up my alley. I’ll check out your RFC drafts, thanks for the tip! Answering your question: it’s mostly

Oh neat! I worked on Secure Scuttlebutt, so this is right up my alley. I’ll check out your RFC drafts, thanks for the tip! Answering your question: it’s mostly the curmudgeonly tendency to avoid custom protocols that are harder to introspect and debug. It’s possible that the hyperdiv sync protocol is super intuitive and simple, but whenever possible I’d like to use boring web standards to reduce the surface area that I’ll feel the need to learn.