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plain-dealing-villain:

It’s an open network! It’s a social network! It’s free!

And, maybe most importantly: It’s Not A Twitter Clone!

Whether it’s actually good…insufficient data for meaningful answer.

But if you want to try it out:

Here is a link to download the main app 

And here is an invite code for a Pub (as in a place you hang out and meet people) for the rationalsphere:

142.93.26.126:8008:@z6kCgZREy7sbWZcI2USeXSoMWEcRW+FcNZySNArAoRI=.ed25519~OJg5KQqTMl8TO6cisLL17PHXesMY5gRGVG/iPRcpkDo=

Here’s the page for the overall “what is this anyway?”

 

spiralingintocontrol:

why are there so many protocols… why do Tent and Mastodon and Scuttlebutt have their own protocols… this is what a “protocol” is for, it’s for multiple things to use…. hnnnnggghhhh

I’ll check it out I guess, as long as they have a linux client

 

somnilogical:

importantly here is an android app for it:

https://www.manyver.se/

 

brin-bellway:

The main problem I had when first attempting to use Scuttlebutt was that–unless you have the knowledge and resources to run your own pub, which I do not–it forces you to integrate into the pre-existing web of social connections, unable to import the relationships you’ve already formed elsewhere. Which *is* a great way to make new friends, and that *is* very much a valuable role to play, but right now I’m focused on keeping the old ones.

A ratsphere pub sounds very promising. I think I’ll be giving this another try.

(They do have a Linux client. Source: am on Linux, have used their client.)

 

plain-dealing-villain:

Running your own pub has been made pretty easy. There’s a tool for spinning up an instance on DigitalOcean which requires very little knowledge or skill.

I’m unclear on how much it will cost to maintain the pub; a new DigitalOcean account gets $100 of credit which must be used in the first 60 days, so I’ll be running this for 60 days and I’ll tell you what it cost at the end of that.

I may even run multiple if I see some reason to or demand for them.

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#interesting #Scuttlebutt

Scuttlebutt

~ Brin ~ 1 Comment

somnilogical:

spiralingintocontrol:

plain-dealing-villain:

It’s an open network! It’s a social network! It’s free!

And, maybe most importantly: It’s Not A Twitter Clone!

Whether it’s actually good…insufficient data for meaningful answer.

But if you want to try it out:

Here is a link to download the main app 

And here is an invite code for a Pub (as in a place you hang out and meet people) for the rationalsphere:

142.93.26.126:8008:@z6kCgZREy7sbWZcI2USeXSoMWEcRW+FcNZySNArAoRI=.ed25519~OJg5KQqTMl8TO6cisLL17PHXesMY5gRGVG/iPRcpkDo=

Here’s the page for the overall “what is this anyway?”

why are there so many protocols… why do Tent and Mastodon and Scuttlebutt have their own protocols… this is what a “protocol” is for, it’s for multiple things to use…. hnnnnggghhhh

I’ll check it out I guess, as long as they have a linux client

importantly here is an android app for it:

https://www.manyver.se/

The main problem I had when first attempting to use Scuttlebutt was that–unless you have the knowledge and resources to run your own pub, which I do not–it forces you to integrate into the pre-existing web of social connections, unable to import the relationships you’ve already formed elsewhere. Which *is* a great way to make new friends, and that *is* very much a valuable role to play, but right now I’m focused on keeping the old ones.

A ratsphere pub sounds very promising. I think I’ll be giving this another try.

(They do have a Linux client. Source: am on Linux, have used their client.)

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#Scuttlebutt #reply via reblog #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers

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@somnilogical​ replied to your post “About that post a couple hours ago that read “This is a test of the…”

have you looked in to scuttlebutt?

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

An interesting idea! Very good fit for the “101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers” tag (use 41: read-write social media).

I see two main issues:

  • There doesn’t seem to be per-post blacklisting or even muting, which combines badly with the system where you automatically see everything friends-of-friends post. Someone who likes my fandom posts does not necessarily want to read my kink posts, and someone who likes my entire blog does not necessarily want to read a bunch of Amenta RP. There’s a block system, but this seems rather extreme: finding a friend-of-a-friend uninteresting does not mean you want them to be unable to read your posts.
  • I am very not an early adopter. I mean, apparently a lot of people *think* of me as an early adopter (”people who made [Tumblr] blogs before 2012 are the Ancient Gods talked about in fantasy”), but I had to hear about Tumblr from four different places for months before deciding to get an account myself.

On the bright side, it looks like backing up your blog is as simple as backing up (Linux) Thunderbird: just zip the local folder and stick the zip file wherever you want, and to restore it just get a blank installation of the interface program and stick the unzipped backup folder where the interface expects its data to be. (I have restored Thunderbird from this style of backup twice, and both times it has Just Worked™.)

I’ll keep it in mind. Thank you!

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#somnilogical #part of me is hoping that if Tumblr actually shuts down it will cause a surge of interest in Tumblr clones and #lead someone to make a Fediverse platform I actually like #but it is good to have some plans on standby #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #replies #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #Scuttlebutt

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