Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform

Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by weavie on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:42PM (#25720263)

I know very little about Scuttlebutt, but supposing, say an ex-president decided to start using it. Would it be able to handle the level of traffic this might generate?

I realise it's decentralised, but would that, for example, at some point require every one who were to get on Scuttlebutt to download on 80gb file in order to get started?

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Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by russdpale on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:37PM (#25721664)

his followers can barely figure out how to get on parler, many of them thought parler groups on facebook was parler itself. They will NEVER, ever, figure out scuttlebutt, DJT couldn't even figure out scuttlebutt.

People want to sign up and login easily. This doesn't seem to do any of that. Convenience is king and necessity it's history maker.

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Re:Scuttlebutt – A decentralized secure gossip platform by MayeulC on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:25PM (#25737353)

Well, I guess it would.

Firstly, only the followers (and maybe their friends) would need to download 80GB of videos posted by that supposed ex-prez.

Then, it's peer-to-peer. I don't know the details, though. It could be torrent (very effective, scalable), or direct connections (poorly scalable).

Some pubs (servers) can retain your data, IIRC, though they could pick who they accept.

Syncing would be pretty easy on local networks and sneakernets, provided you have the storage capacity.

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