welcome @Abbey . @richdecibels is a pretty good egg.

if you didn't find it already, you might like the channels :

• #anarchitecture
• #solarpunk

yeah that could be interesting @Abbey .

We've got bits and pieces we've written and spoken already, would any of those be appropriate for revision and republishing :

• https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/stories/
• https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/talks.html

I'm interested to hear about what you specific needs are as a community. I think it could be a great ideas to invite some possible users onto Scuttlebutt, and have some conversation on here to see how this platform behaves and what it feels like. The community is really open and welcome to questions

@Abbey I'm quite curious about how this goes. I generally let people figure out the politics of ssb on their own, maybe mainly because understanding enough of how it works to imagine what social effect that will have is a bit of a hump to get over.

That said, there is certainly a social theory embedded in SSB's logic, and I am very curious where this thread goes.

@Abbey that sounds great.

I think quoting or interviewing us for a piece that is yours is a good fit.
I think if you want to co-author and share the message then it would need people to be more involved. I'm happy with either (the former is less time intensive for me for sure), just let us know which way you're interested in.

Sounds great. Please do ask questions as you go, there are a few parts to how this place runs which might take some time and questions.
There's actually a rad resource that @Zach! put together that might be of interest https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/

@Abbey yes, although "pseudonymonous" is a better way to think of it. That said, if you have a high profile account, a bad pub, or a pub being observed closely, could retrace your IP address - so it would probably be advisable to connect through Tor.

My biggest set of thoughts is that groups really need to host their own pubs and have tight-knit networks of trust rather than exploring the whole scuttleverse

Yup, this is something I'm working towards. In the TechTree I need out-of-order messages, and then I can start working on private-groups. There will be two flavors of private groups: things like "friends" and "family" which have one writer and many readers (because they center around an individual) and groups that many many writers (where you can add people to the group, like facebook groups). The primary goal is metadata privacy - unintended parties will be able to see that someone posted a private message, but not who it is intended for, or whether it is an individual message or a group message.

you can declare a message someone has posted is false or is a lie. We don't have an easy interface for that at the moment.
Part of the architecture of this place is that you can't stop another person from saying something. All you can do is choose to not be near or talking with those parties.

@Abbey it's easy to start a fresh identity - just delete the secret file, from your ~/.ssb/ directory. (planned: switching between multiple identities from the ui). The old id will still be floating around, but nothing new added to it.