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To me it sounds like you should be using a broadcast mechanism.

When any instance makes a change, it sends notification of that change to a broadcast group that all the other instances (and itself) are listening to.

In that way, each instance only sends or receives to/from the broadcast group address, thereby avoiding the problems of runaway cascading notifications.

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