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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by fenwick67 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:33PM (#18069717)
All of the actual applications are listed here, there's nothing with winforms or whatever:

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications

The core implementation is written in javascript so it's not surprising it uses Electron, it's a pragmatic option.

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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by jpetso on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:23PM (#18070182)
When I looked two years ago, SSB wasn't documented as a protocol or storage format much, and instead focused squarely on usage from JS code and a million of micro-dependencies via npm, making it hard to tell data formats from implementation details.

I haven't checked since, but unless the situation has substantially improved since, it's no surprise that the JS implementation is the only one out there.

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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by jpetso on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:30PM (#18070237)
Reply to self - apparently the situation has indeed improved and there are some proper docs, plus code in Python, Go and C:

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

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