Scuttlebutt sounded like exactly something I've always wanted, but I got a vague feeling of something about the project behind it being weird, disorganized, eso

Scuttlebutt sounded like exactly something I've always wanted, but I got a vague feeling of something about the project behind it being weird, disorganized, esoteric - basically a gut feeling making me worried about the protocol and whether it's soundly designed - and most of the documentation at that time seemed to focus on philosophy rather than the intricacies of the protocol. The 35C3 talk about it (https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9635-scuttlebutt https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9635-scuttlebutt) turned me off from it completely. I'm glad to see a concise, clean technical spec. Does the protocol have meaningful adoption anywhere?