Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform

• oasis

  3 283 0.0 JavaScript

  Free, open-source, peer-to-peer social application that helps you follow friends and discover new ones on Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). (by fraction)

  

Some updates:

Oasis is a new frontend (alternative to the Patchwork desktop app): https://github.com/fraction/oasis/

Manyverse continues development, including working on low-level database improvements, and gossip "rooms":

• ssb-room

  4 109 0.0 JavaScript

  A server to find and connect to other SSB peers – a meeting place. AGPL-3.0

Yes, the initial syncing and indexing can take a moment. I would recommend joining a single Pub or SSB room [1] to find people and grow your network organically. The large Pubs [2] have a lot of content to download and also follow bots (which you would have to block).

[1] https://github.com/staltz/ssb-room/blob/master/FAQ.md

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• handbook.scuttlebutt.nz

  3 165 0.0 CSS

  ssb handbook: A guide to the Secure Scuttlebutt key concepts and influences (see also, new website: https://gitlab.com/ssbc/scuttlebutt.nz/)

  

Yes[0]. AFAIK fully transferring an identity from one device to the next should not be a problem. The problem is more that updating the feed from multiple devices would create diverging feeds.

[0]: https://github.com/ssbc/handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/blob/master/...

• ssb-browser-demo

  1 59 4.2 JavaScript

  Discontinued A secure scuttlebutt client interface running in the browser

There is a browser based demo you can try out at: https://between-two-worlds.dk/.

It's the latest build of https://github.com/arj03/ssb-browser-demo.

If you need an id to follow to get some data, you can try following @6CAxOI3f+LUOVrbAl0IemqiS7ATpQvr9Mdw9LC4+Uv0=.ed25519. You need to manually add either a room or a pub under connections first.

• ssb-server

  6 1,682 0.0 JavaScript

  The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt - a distributed social network

  

[2] https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/Pub-Servers

• http-ssb

  1 12 0.0 JavaScript

I've wanted to write a longer blog post about this, but after a few years of working on SSB I appreciate you highlighting these pain points. I think everyone in the SSB maintainer community feels the same way.

My hot take: Scuttlebutt should be something that you can implement yourself in an afternoon. I've done this a few times, using Python, Node.js, and Deno, but I've only implemented the message type. (Not Multiserver, MuxRPC, Secret-Handshake, Box-Strean, Private-Box, or any of the other protocols that are associated with SSB.)

> It feels like Git.

You got it. You could express an SSB chain with Git and a pre-commit hook (to verify messages), but using Git as your database is even harder than learning the toy database that SSB uses.

Various links:

- My SSB data expressed as a Git repository (outdated): https://github.com/christianbundy/ssb-git-data

- My speedrun SSB implementation with SQLite, using HTTP for replication: https://github.com/christianbundy/http-ssb

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