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Yes. Multiple nodes can subscribe to the same topic. Multiple nodes can publish to the same topic.

I believe that each subscriber gets it's own buffer so there is no worry that one subscriber will get one message and the other subscriber will miss it - and if I'm wrong about that, I'm sure someone will be along shortly to correct me.

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