Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by staltz on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:05PM (#16879614)

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's odd that we got used to the idea that "(1) registration, (2) strong password creation, (3) username selection (in case of conflicts), (4) email verification link, (5) login" is somehow a good user experience.

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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by jeffschofield on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:29PM (#16880734)

I have a question, how would my Grandma signal her identity to SSB from multiple devices? Say she has an iPhone and an iPad and she wants to use the iPad at home and the iPhone when she's out. I imagine it's not as simple as installing the app on both devices in this case? I'm curious how this is approached.

Cycle.js and xstream are amazing, as an aside. Thank you.

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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by gregknicholson on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:28AM (#16882586)

Using the same identity from several devices is not yet implemented.

Eventually, the client will probably have a “that's also me” button, which you'll press on both devices to confirm.

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