It’s web-scale!

You mean, … she’s not real? Say it isn’t so!

SSB can use the internet to share encrypted messages via hubs/servers, but it also can share the same messages peer to peer in a mesh sort of setup without the internet using a ‘gossip’ protocol within a local network. It was invented by a sailor who was regularly away from WiFi due to being at sea.

Pretty horrifying if you let yourself think of it.