Scuttlebutt News

Planetary uses the secure scuttlebutt protocol and exists as part of a larger community of apps. There's so much going on in the community that we encourage you to check out the January 2021 newsletter.

A few highlights, if your looking for an app on Android, please check out manyverse.

@skyebend has a great post on social norms to follow on this platform. And @andrestaltz has a great thread about moderation and hate speech in this decentralized space.

@mixmix and a bunch of other developers are working on the ahau project to create a maori run and controlled decentralized platform for their community. This work has driven forward the work on private groups which haven't been rolled in to Planetary yet, but is coming. There's also ssb-tribes which is the javascript implementation of private groups. Ahau's also given us editing and soft deletes of content which is coming to planetary.

There's a short talk on the gossip protocol we use here in scuttlebutt which is interesting to folks who want to understand the details.

A lot of scuttlebutt development is being funded by an EU grant, the NGI project, and all their code is particularly useful to track.

The “social norms” & “moderation and hate speech” links don’t seem to be working here.

#Noobquestion: are the "anonymized" usernames a core feature of the scuttlebutt protocol? I can see this being a barrier to wider adoption if people can't customize their handles...?