@dinosaur, not having an open inviting public pub might stifle adoption. I mean, do new people who have, say read @andrestaltz's blogs, have to email pub owners to beg admission to join the scuttleverse?

@jolyon yep, that's the idea!

i have a question: is adoption what we really need?

to me, it's far more important to nurture our small community, to explore the emerging solarpunk cultural practices, to develop better technical systems for our current uxerbase, to strengthen the relationships already present, to practice more economic flows amongst the network, etc. to be honest, i think a growth strategy is risky, a public pub approach could easily lead to our network being infected by frogs, or growing faster than our ability to disseminate culture as an Eternal September.

by increasing the barrier to entry, we aren't making it impossible for newbies to join, we're instead supporting strong community boundaries. people will still join by either being invited by a butt (i'm happy to give out invites to @one.butt.nz) or asking a pub owner (hard to believe in our instant on-demand economy).

the above being said, i'm going to pitch a grant for April to develop better pub infrastructure and a hosted pub-as-a-service product, so anyone can host their own pub. i want everyone to be able to have a pub, so the network can expand through peer-to-peer social connections on private pubs. if someone wants their pub to be public-facing, that's up to them.