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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by underwater on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:41PM (#16881553)
How can Scuttlebutt prevent (2) from happening? If you share data with your friends, how can you know that they haven't installed an app that will slurp up that data wholesale?

The only solution would to be to enforce reasonable app usage in the client, and then require all your friends to use that client. That seems to defeat the purpose of a decentralised protocol.

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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by gregknicholson on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:05AM (#16882485)
Nothing can prevent that from happening. DRM cannot ever work. Facebook can't stop “friends” from slurping data either.

The SSB protocol has other design goals beyond “be Facebook but less evil”; for example it works seamlessly offline.

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