Pub servers are very much considered a temporary workaround in the Scuttleverse, and there is a lot of ongoing work to make onboarding both more directly user-f

Pub servers are very much considered a temporary workaround in the Scuttleverse, and there is a lot of ongoing work to make onboarding both more directly user-friendly, and also less dependent on "having an anarchist sysadmin in your friend group". Right now, without pub servers you can: 1. find friends in your immediate vicinity over WiFi/Bluetooth/etc.-type nearby protocols. 2. if you have a friend (see #1), you can connect to friends-of-friends (#1 may seem extremely limiting at first, but it's actually only limiting for a technology which is not popular in your local area—network effect problems—so "in theory" it's not really so bad when you think about it. I've probably added a good portion of my FB friends in their presence) However, one of the main alternatives being actively worked on is DHT invites. This is basically the "torrent magnet link" equivalent for SSB. See various links to work on this below: [0] https://gitlab.com/staltz/ssb-dht-invite https://gitlab.com/staltz/ssb-dht-invite [1] https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/issues/186 https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse/issues/186 [2] https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/pull/862 https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/pull/862 [3] %r6dTZ4WG7kuLFfGlUR1DAhyat7YEuX682mGI9UJXlc4=.sha256