I love SSB, in principle. The protocol itself is very well documented[1]. The community tends to center lofty ideals around accessibility, anti-authoritarianism

I love SSB, in principle. The protocol itself is very well documented[1]. The community tends to center lofty ideals around accessibility, anti-authoritarianism, and social responsibility[2][3] which I'm all about. Unfortunately, I've found the software implementations maintained by the SSBC to be "barely working" at best, with pretty scant and out of date documentation (to the point where code in "Getting Started" sections doesn't actually work) for most libraries/tools, PRs and issues lounge for many months without a response, and I've noticed a disappointing tendency among the SSB community and maintainers to be a bit condescending to newcomers and less technical users (not to mention cliqueish) in a way that seems in tension with some of the ideals that they pay lip service to. That said, I'm aware that we're all human, and my experience here is as more of an observer and tinkerer than active participant, so should be taken with a grain of salt [1] https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-... [3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/manyverse-and-scuttlebutt-a-human-centric-technology-stack-for-social-applications/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/manyverse-and-scuttlebutt-a-hu...