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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by jonstaab on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:47PM (#28610418)
The problem here is how SSB is used in practice; most content is not passed p2p, but through a single hub. This isn't part of the design, it just happens to be how they're bootstrapping right now. But it does mean that number of hops is not a good proxy for actual social closeness.
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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:58PM (#28610520)
Is that still the case? It was like this 3 years ago when I last tried it. Sounds like in practice SSB is just as centralized as a standard client-server network.
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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by iszomer on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:18PM (#28611223)
It's optional. There are some benefits to relying on a hub such as having the ability to follow channels of interest the hub hosts and structured similarly with hashtags on twitter.
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Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid by bitdiddle on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:39AM (#28614543)
There's a new feature, rooms[0], that allows members to replicate with one another and stores nothing.

[0]: https://github.com/ssb-ngi-pointer/rooms2

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