https://vimeo.com/236358264
"An Introduction to Scuttlebutt, the lovely decentralized social network
<
https://scuttlebutt.nz/>"
Via John Hardy, who wrote:
Scuttlebutt is a peer-to-peer social network that is completely decentralized
and independent of the standard internet. It is resilient at every level
unlike federated services like Diapora and Mastodon.
It reminds me of the old FidoNet systems I used to use many years ago, long
before I had access to the internet. The difference is that this technology
is designed to be secure.
I also remember chatting with a political activist years later who said he
regretted the disappearance of those old BBS networks because they were much
harder for repressive governments to censor and control. He used to hand out
floppy disks to activists across the world to facilitate communication that
was outside of the listening range of government eavesdroppers.
Scuttlebutt looks to me like a return to this older, more resilient and
ultimately more liberating approach to social networking. This technology is
part of the solution Andre Staltz was talking about in history TEDx talk that
I posted yesterday.
https://plus.google.com/+JohnAHardy/posts/Qao9ED1REbX
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
