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Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances that include a plurality of device objects, the plurality of device objects comprising a first device object associated with a given user; receiving, by the first device object, a friends list of the given user having a first version identifier; receiving, by the first device object, an update from a client device associated with the given user, the update comprising a friends list version identifier; determining that the first version identifier of the friends list in the first device object mismatches the friends list version identifier in the update; and synchronizing the friends list in the first device object prior to sending one or more messages that include the update to other device objects of the plurality of device objects.
