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But isn't scuttlebutt User centric vs. content centric? So I will only easily find content from people I already know? And I guess I can find new people if the

But isn't scuttlebutt User centric vs. content centric? So I will only easily find content from people I already know? And I guess I can find new people if they are somehow connected to me, but can I search just for content on the "whole" network? Does this really provide a network effect like medium or facebook, or google search, who offer a large existing network for discovery?

the_other 6y ago
Last time I used it: yes-ish. "Tags" are public and posts can be set public (perhaps scoped to the server you're connected to. I don't recall). You can tag bits of content pretty easily (IIRC you prepend a # to any word you like). You then explore the contents of tags like channels. Public posts with tags then show up under those tags. The SSB/Patchwork creators were discussing a while ago that the network was actually content-centric. They described it as "islands of content" around which people navigated. I'm not gonna try to defend that, only to repeat it. Anyway... I think this is distracting from the main point. It doesn't _really_ matter if SSB wins out over HTML+CSS+JS+HTTP+RSS+ActivityPub+WebMentions or not. What matters is encouraging people to leave social media walled gardens by giving them tools and reasons to do so. Or, at the very least, somehow giving the content they create an easy means of escape, and bullying the gardens to open windows onto the wider world that don't involve one-way tactics like OpenGraph.