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Re:Briar Project by myself248 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:58PM (#24033125)
I'm really intrigued by the Scuttlebutt protocol, but in practice it's super hard to get plugged into the community because, as a new user, nobody follows you. I haven't figured out how to just engage people in conversation -- I reply to their posts but nobody sees my replies.

If there are other applications that can run over the protocol, I'm interested in learning about them.

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Re:Briar Project by grey_earthling on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:15PM (#24042815)
Yeah, that behaviour's designed to counter spam and unwanted bots, but it does mean newbies need to be invited into a community. Meanwhile it's lonely talking into the void.

You could connect to a pub — an automatically-friendly bot account; see a list at https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/Pub-Servers — scuttle.space seems to be active right now.

If you're happy posting your SSB ID publicly, I'll follow you, and that may help. Or you can use the #new-people tag if you want to introduce/announce yourself :)

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Re:Briar Project by Forbo on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:55AM (#24039348)
The dealbreaker with Scuttlebutt for me was the inability to delete messages.
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