> Secure Scuttlebutt takes a more social approach and organises its network in terms of pubs. There is no central discovery, you can only find users that you "m

> Secure Scuttlebutt takes a more social approach and organises its network in terms of pubs. There is no central discovery, you can only find users that you "meet" in a pub. The caveat is: those users can’t meet _you_. I used SSB for a few months, joining pubs, commenting, trying to participate. No responses. (Not a huge surprise—you can get lost in the piles of people on Twitter, Reddit, etc.) However, eventually I discovered that no one could see my contributions unless they added me—and SSB (or Patchwork, in this case) gave me no way of advertising my presence. This was pretty self-defeating. So now I don’t have to just build a ‘presence’ inside the network, I also have to build a ‘presence’ outside the network to announce that I’m somewhere inside the network. The SSB tools also give you no inkling that this is the case. So just know to bring friends!