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While it seems cool, I just think that it is kind of self-defeating? Sure I can see my friends posts after a while, but at the same time if you really live off

• myself248 5y ago
  My understanding is that it can also exchange traffic peer-to-peer, either when two nodes find each other on the same wifi network, or ever over Bluetooth. So if a friend (who presumably follows many of the same folks you follow) comes to visit your off-grid hovel, they bring the most recent network state with them. Anything you've written gets merged with that state, and if they later go back to some other form of connectivity, it propagates that way too. This gets really interesting if, say, you're out camping with a bunch of friends who are all on SSB. You take some photos of something you found on a hike, and post them. Your fellow campers can respond and interact, just like always, since the data propagates around the campsite. When (one or all of) you return to civilization, the whole corpus propagates to whoever else follows you, and they can see (and now participate in) the whole thing. Even if some of the folks are still off in the wilderness and their phones haven't seen a cell tower in months.
• aabbcc1241 5y ago
  When I was in high school, I took photos and write posts on paper. Then I post them on Facebook when I got access to the internet (in timeframe of less than an hour in 2 days)