These is just random unorganised space to help me quickly jot down either information (public) that is new to me or thoughts that are good enough to share! 😂
This is the staging area. Stuff here should get promoted to Articles soonish! (if pestered consistently).
Scuttlebutt (the underlying protocol of Manyverse) is the best decentralized social network I've found so far. It takes a much more radical approach than that of federation ala Mastadon, which is just centralization in miniature.
Under the hood, scuttlebutt uses multiple independent blockchains, each tied to a single user. The upside of this is that it makes for a great eventually consistent gossip protocol; the downside is that the entire chain needs to be propagated for any of it to make sense, making it a very storage-intensive protocol.
Private messaging is implemented in a really interesting way using cryptographic envelopes that are publicly gossiped, but only decryptable by the recipient — whose address is also encrypted and therefore hidden.
Personally, I'm looking forward to when they introduce a good decentralized solution for moderation. This would help keep the size of the chain smaller, and make the information you see more usable.
The Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide [0] is a really easy and interesting read, I highly recommend it.
[0] <https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/>
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