I think this comment comes closest to the "correct" answer here: > It's p2p, no webapps. That is to say, this is not a "service" that you use, so there is no

I think this comment comes closest to the "correct" answer here: > It's p2p, no webapps. That is to say, this is not a "service" that you use, so there is no scuttlebutt.com where you just sign up. The software running the replication, and the storage backing it, will be local. Insofar you will always eventually want to run this locally. Now, of course some fine folks are working around that with modern web tech (see @arj's sibling comment) but the whole idea of this project is that you will locally control your data.