Ask HN: Anyone got experience using Scuttlebutt? Thoughts?

[taurusnoises]

Curious what the lot of you who've used Scuttlebutt (and whatever app you use to access it) think about the platform.

Scuttlebutt is a decentralized, peer-2-peer social platform where all of the data is stored on your own computer. There is no central server. It's been around for a few years, and has a somewhat quiet web presence. I'm curious about it, am looking into playing around, and always like to check in with the HN community first, since you all collectively have a ton more experience than I do. Just curious about your thoughts on it (or anything else like it). For reference --> https://scuttlebutt.nz/

I will say that while I'm interested, part of me thinks this is just the most complicated way to say hello to someone. Like, just call them?

Edit: clarification

[mindcrime]

In case anybody else is wondering what Scuttlebutt is:

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

[taurusnoises → mindcrime]

Yes, thank you. I will put that in the description...

[369548684892826]

> part of me thinks this is just the most complicated way to say hello to someone

I'm not sure why all the web3 talk is about crypto and not interesting projects like this, but with decentralisation comes complexity.

[taurusnoises → 369548684892826]

Totally. Where there's money there's news. Unfortunately.