Highlight client server use cases more#77
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Also link to example protocols, sendme as typical client server and gossip as canonical p2p proto
Rationale: local first people will know iroh already and don't need this on top. People that are more familiar with client server roles should not be discouraged as in "iroh is for local first stuff primarily"
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| You can still build client/server-style protocols if your application needs that |
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Documents shouldn't be the first thing we point people at, given that it is on limited support.
We got some non p2p people on the team and we don't want to give the impression that we care most about pure p2p use cases.
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In my opinion we should explicitly spell out that you can implement client server use cases with iroh as well. Arguably this is the more common use case. Also the local first / full p2p people know iroh by heart by now and won't be discouraged by this.