Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
by newscracker on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:08AM
(#25714325)
I have similar questions too. It seemed as if it was tied to a single device and transferring information from one to another also seemed cumbersome.
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Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
by hobofan on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:47AM
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Yes[0]. AFAIK fully transferring an identity from one device to the next should not be a problem. The problem is more that updating the feed from multiple devices would create diverging feeds.
[0]: https://github.com/ssbc/handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/blob/master/...
Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform
by grey_earthling on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:57AM
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It's common for one person to have multiple feeds/identities, so this is less of a problem than you might expect.
There's no structured way to indicate that 2 feeds are the same person (aka #sameAs), but you can easily link to the other feed and just say “this is also me” (because your audience is a bunch of humans that mostly pass the Turing test).
Because of this, we get the bonus feature that you can easily follow a different set of feeds on different devices — e.g. perhaps on your phone you want feeds you're less likely to reply to, because you prefer typing on a physical keyboard.