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by staltz 8y ago
Actually with a few tweaks, this technology would be much simpler to use than Facebook, for a person like your grandma, simply because it removes that annoying registration process. You just open the installed app, and that's it. It&
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by staltz 8y ago
Okay Hackernews, I get it. Scuttlebutt isn't fully ready for everything yet. I wrote that article hoping that it would sparkle interest to both use it, plus make it happen. This is not your usual startup launch, it's a community p
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by staltz 8y ago
There is work underway to implement the protocol in Go, Rust, C and a bit of Haskell. Some of those are usable, but partially complete. There is no reason for the protocol to be restricted to JS and Electron.
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by staltz 8y ago
It's a protocol, not a product. Just make a new product that uses the protocol and there you go, a new name.
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by staltz 8y ago
I'm working the mobile app for Android. Groundwork for iOS is underway: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/981622147864039424
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by staltz 8y ago
The GDPR argument is a bit moot because Scuttlebutt is no different than sharing pictures in gossip style (a.k.a. memes). If one of your childhood pictures happens to become the new meme, there's little hope that GDPR enforcement would
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by staltz 8y ago
Public servers were a temporary hack and nowadays most of the community is putting their public servers down. It's not a good idea for scaling, but above all, public servers connect you with strangers , which is basically undesired fo
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by staltz 8y ago
That's just now. It's evolving fast, and two new developments will improve the onboarding problem: WebRTC-based invites, and connecting p2p to friends through a DHT (Kademlia).
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by staltz 9y ago
So far no Facebook employee has answered this thread (unless they did so between the lines). Considering that Facebook has 25k employees, this must mean they have some very harsh policy on keeping quiet. Either that, or a strong culture tha
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by staltz 9y ago
If you get your friends to use Scuttlebutt https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ , then it has an events UI https://github.com/pietgeursen/ssb-gathering-ui
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by staltz 9y ago
Hi, I'm andrestaltz who Elon answered on Twitter. Like others have mentioned here, it seems like Elon is referring to the link layer between the satellites. "Peer-to-peer" probably meant "without a network switch".
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by staltz 9y ago
Hi. First I'd like to comment that I wrote that blog post literally quickly because I just wanted to convert an informal Twitter thread into a more shareable and digestible format, so I didn't take the time to make it "hacker
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by staltz 9y ago
Hi Mark. What's the underlying database used there? SSB in the browser is a subproject we're pushing forwards sometimes, but it's progressing slowly. One of the main obstacles is IndexedDB which seems to be much worse (in man
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by staltz 9y ago
This here is a great technical description of the protocol: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
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by staltz 9y ago
I'm using, daily. Also about ~2300 other people, but that's just how much my own local installation holds, they may be more that I'm not aware of.
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Scuttlebutt protocol guide(ssbc.github.io)
3 points by staltz 9y ago|0 comments
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by staltz 9y ago
The article is okay, but I'm disappointed about a lack of larger big-picture thinking. It assumes (instead of questioning) that we will live in cities or often visit cities. The internet economy already decentralized cities by making
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by staltz 9y ago
OP here. I find more than 4 hops impracticable. That's not what I was suggesting in the article. I suggested (probably not clearly enough) three ways meshes can be efficient: (1) local-first social networking where the use case is &quo
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by staltz 9y ago
It's hard to imagine how things could be different, but for many services you don't need a middleman. For a long time, banking was thought to be a necessary middleman because you "have to" trust at least some actor to ve
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by staltz 9y ago
Good observations about the need for the Internet to handle long-distances. I wrote on scuttlebutt that telecommunication channels could become multi-modal like public transportation is often in Europe: https://viewer.scuttlebot.
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by staltz 9y ago
If you asked about the GitHub alternative, it's this: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25RPKzL382v2fAia5HuDNHD5kkFdlP7bG...
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A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet(staltz.com)
279 points by staltz 9y ago|210 comments
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by staltz 9y ago
Who is Karlaplan? And why choose Google Docs to share information which Google may dislike and remove?
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by staltz 9y ago
Many thanks! I share your thoughts that tech is "heroin", in fact I've been thinking that UX is killing us, it has become so good, that it's addicting. This is true clinically too, as social media instant gratification r
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by staltz 9y ago
Hi, thanks for appreciating some of my work. Click bait titles have a bad reputation because they either lie or don't go in-depth into the topic. That's not the case here. I wrote with depth and research, and the body of the artic
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web(staltz.com)
712 points by staltz 9y ago|323 comments
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by staltz 9y ago
Why do I see "We're sorry... The request has been blocked." when I try to open this site? Anyone else see it? I can see it normally when I access through Tor.
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Why Elm needs a better native code policy(reddit.com)
3 points by staltz 9y ago|0 comments
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Cycle.js: A Unified Theory of Everything for JavaScript(medium.com)
5 points by staltz 9y ago|0 comments
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by staltz 9y ago
The internet is growing in users ( http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ ) and sites ( https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-surve... ) BUT this growth means most of i

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