https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html
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A year ago I joined a group of programmers who are building a new type of social network, called Secure Scuttlebutt. It’s not a startup or even a nonprofit — it’s just open-source software that allows users to be in touch with their friends.
What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data. My Scuttlebutt account is not kept behind a login gate. It’s just stored locally on my computer, like any other file.
Because users own all of the files that make up Scuttlebutt, they can store their data anywhere. For example, I have 800 MB worth of data — that’s small enough to fit on a microSD card. This represents two years of status updates, friends’ status updates, contact information, photos, and what have you. As soon as I put the card into my phone, Scuttlebutt automatically updates and syncs with the new posts that my friends or I make. The user always owns their data — they can take it out and literally hold it in their hand — but this data is also dynamically linked in to the social network.
Let’s make our virtual selves as free as our physical selves.
One way we can do this is to embrace peer-to-peer protocols across the Internet. Scuttlebutt excels at this — your app talks to your friend’s app and asks for the latest. This is how it updates across the social network.
Because your data is always with you, Scuttlebutt allows you to share it in different ways. For instance, through a shared wifi network, you can transfer the latest news between two computers that are physically near one another. In the future, we will also enable Bluetooth transfer. This means it’s a social network that uses the internet, but it is not dependent on the internet.
If we continue to keep data locked up in cloud accounts, there is no future for the web. On the other hand, if we can choose which medium to use when sharing our data, we can be active on a digital social network and independent from the privatized internet. Let’s make a home for each digital being.
Setting up your own Scuttlebutt account is easy. Take a look at the video below, or visit their website for instructions on getting started.
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html
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A year ago I joined a group of programmers who are building a new type of social network, called Secure Scuttlebutt. It’s not a startup or even a nonprofit — it’s just open-source software that allows users to be in touch with their friends.
What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data. My Scuttlebutt account is not kept behind a login gate. It’s just stored locally on my computer, like any other file.
Because users own all of the files that make up Scuttlebutt, they can store their data anywhere. For example, I have 800 MB worth of data — that’s small enough to fit on a microSD card. This represents two years of status updates, friends’ status updates, contact information, photos, and what have you. As soon as I put the card into my phone, Scuttlebutt automatically updates and syncs with the new posts that my friends or I make. The user always owns their data — they can take it out and literally hold it in their hand — but this data is also dynamically linked in to the social network.
Let’s make our virtual selves as free as our physical selves.
One way we can do this is to embrace peer-to-peer protocols across the Internet. Scuttlebutt excels at this — your app talks to your friend’s app and asks for the latest. This is how it updates across the social network.
Because your data is always with you, Scuttlebutt allows you to share it in different ways. For instance, through a shared wifi network, you can transfer the latest news between two computers that are physically near one another. In the future, we will also enable Bluetooth transfer. This means it’s a social network that uses the internet, but it is not dependent on the internet.
If we continue to keep data locked up in cloud accounts, there is no future for the web. On the other hand, if we can choose which medium to use when sharing our data, we can be active on a digital social network and independent from the privatized internet. Let’s make a home for each digital being.
Setting up your own Scuttlebutt account is easy. Take a look at the video below, or visit their website for instructions on getting started.
