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**Snowflake:** A distributed ID generation system developed by Twitter that produces 64-bit unique, sortable identifiers. Each ID encodes a timestamp, machine ID, and sequence number, enabling high-throughput, ordered ID creation suitable for large-scale distributed applications.
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**Generic:** A flexible Snowflake format that can use a node identifier and any epoch offset, suitable for various applications requiring unique identifiers.
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> **Note:** Support for Snowflake identifiers will arrive soon, stay tuned.
**Discord:** Snowflake identifier for Discord's platform (voice, text, video), starting from epoch `2015-01-01`. Can incorporate a worker and process ID's to generate distinct Snowflakes.
**Instagram:** Snowflake identifier for Instagram's photo and video sharing platform, with an epoch starting at `2011-08-24`. Can incorporate a shard ID to generate distinct Snowflakes.
**Mastodon:** Snowflake identifier for Mastodon’s decentralized social network, generated within a database to ensure uniqueness and approximate order within 1ms. Can include a table name for distinct sequences per table; IDs are unique on a single database but not guaranteed across multiple machines.
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