If you are not connected to me as a friend, and you are not a friend of one of my friends, I literally won't see your content. Scuttlebutt is a distributed pee

If you are not connected to me as a friend, and you are not a friend of one of my friends, I literally won't see your content. Scuttlebutt is a distributed peer to peer network so we only gather content from other peers we connect to. Some of those peers are centralized "pubs" but functionally they're just another user (somewhat oversimplified). we ask our peers "hey do you have any info on person x whome i follow" and then follow that person's connections out one more hop. so, if you are too many hops away from me I won't see you content. If you ARE within range of me and you message me i will see it, BUT if you spam me I will block you and you'll stop seeing me, receiving my content, and receiving the content from any friend of mine whose content you got through me. You could get their content via another person/pub but I likely cut you off from something by blocking you. I will stop seeing your content completely because my client will stop asking for it. Because blocks have a follow-on effect enough people blocking you will act like an immune system defense and cut you off from the main body of the network. Bad actors are rapidly flushed from the system in my experience.