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+- nginx role
+- don't make roles beg to keep them alive, instead wait for a timeout since the last keepalive message and then probe them
+- think about choosing the master for the keepalive message (should be somewhat load-balanced)
+- hivemind lite should not just print `hivemind-lite` lol
+- different transport (maybe something like a custom binary protocol)