Scuttlebot Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Bluesky is receiving about 3k reports/hour

  If AT was distributed using a signed hash message protocol combined with a simple replication strategy (perhaps only replicating a friend and the friends friends) to spread those posts out between their PDSes this burden of moderation would fall less upon the shoulders of their main PDS. As always I refer the conversion to the ssb API documentation[1] for an example of how AT could have been made. I'm always happy... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Bluesky Is Not Decentralized

  Yes, of course Bluesky is federated. The hosts hold onto your keypairs. The DID:PLC is a substring of your first hash. For those of you who are interested in solving this problem with social media for real my first suggestion is to read the Scuttlebot docs which are still up at: https://scuttlebot.io/ Sometimes I think about a retro Scuttlebot revival. If you want to set sail on this kind of project, contact info... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.” – An Introduction

  Yes, you've got it. Not many people were around back then, but once upon a time there was a working version of Scuttlebot (by Dominic Tarr) that was documented at https://scuttlebot.io/ with a client called Patchwork (by Paul Frazee). The idea behind the project was that you would gossip between scuttlebot 'pub' servers and then replicate messages from the people you follow and the people that those people follow.... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.” – An Introduction

  You are talking to strangers on the internet right now and seem to find it worthwhile. Do you mean Secure Scuttlebutt? "Scuttlebot" seems to be the old name for the primary Secure Scuttlebutt server implementation (https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/glossary), though its website is still https://scuttlebot.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago