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Last year I had a dream about one of the smart devices in a home kitchen hosting a Mastodon instance that only granted accounts to other devices in the kitchen
@xor this seems like an ideal use case for secure-scuttlebutt, actually. literal gossip protocol and everything...
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@xor I'd once thought of this as a short story idea, except the homeowner's being trolled online by household appliences.
Since then I've been kind of obsessed about the idea of gossip between the appliances with which I interact