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  1. Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 04:25:38 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    I may back up, remove and reinstall #Manyverse before I give up on it. A lot of the people I used to see are overly political. I don’t miss that, but I’m interested—or at least I was—in the potential to enable normal (not politically obsessed) people to connect outside of #corpocentric #socnets.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from Shoyu permalink
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 05:31:00 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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      So #Manyverse is a client for #SSB, the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol ( see https://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html ). Read the link to see more about the protocol.

      At present, I think most implementations are based on Node.js.

      An important thing in SSB is "Pubs". The link above says this:

      > "Pubs" are bot-users that have public IPs. They follow users and rehost the messages to other peers, ensuring good uptime and no firewall blockage.

      > Pubs have no special privileges, and are not trusted by users. However, because Scuttlebot has no DHT or NAT-traversal utilities, users must "join" a Pub to distribute their messages on the WAN.

      Without a lot of active experience with SSB or its clients, it seems that pubs are a weak point and a centralizing influence. Sure, I could host a pub myself, but then I'd need to attract a good sized fraction of the overall SSB userbase, so that those connecting to my pub could find interesting users.
      In conversation about 4 months ago permalink
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 08:28:52 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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      They have no way to notify users when there’s an issue. https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/Pub-Servers

      Apparently, there was a crashing bug that took down pubs in certain circumstances. Looks like only one pub is currently open to the public.
      In conversation about 4 months ago permalink

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      1. ssbc/ssb-server
        The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt - a distributed social network - ssbc/ssb-server
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 18:14:45 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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      Another issue, which I've observed before. #Manyverse #iOS doesn't respond quickly to user input, so it often seems frozen. I tend to click 3-4 times before I remember to wait for it to respond.
      In conversation about 4 months ago permalink
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Oct-2020 18:19:27 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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      In any case, the pub outage tells me that #SSB, in its current design, is unsuitable for connecting regular people together.

      Maybe I'll look at #Jami again to see whether it's made progress toward fixing its issues.

      Or #Tox, or #Briar.
      In conversation about 4 months ago permalink

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