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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Distributed & E2EE self-hosting.  The goal is to have nodes voluntarily join the
 6. Send the contents of the `host.csr` file to a cluster admin to sign.
 7. The returned, signed certificate should go alongside the `host.csr` file and be called, `host.crt`.
 8. Start the container again and it should find the config and certificates and then connect to the existing cluster.
-9. Update the `static_host_map` entry in the repo's `node-config.yaml` with the new Lighthouse mesh and public IP address and node admins to update their config files from the repo.
+9. Update the `static_host_map` entry in the repo's `node-config.yaml` with the new Lighthouse mesh and public IP address and encourage node admins to update their nodes' config files from the repo.
 
 ## Node installation