I think it's really easy to conceive of "scuttlebutt" as the main social net. While that is true the dream (for me) is that it's a range of communities who happen to be using the same peer-to-peer social graph, but in different ways. Like Ahau.

But also a mobile app I want to make which lets you share your dietary needs with the people you trust around you (physically) and gossips updates to those people as you encounter them. My dream is that I can invite two different friends over for dinner, and by entering them as attendees to a dinner I get a combined summary of what we can cook with (and as peoples diets evolve to meet their particular life needs). I think the same idea can work for local update propagation about contact details (current phone, email, address). Maybe relationship status... 2 dating app

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@cblgh it's not that straightfwd - we are building the Ahau community in parallel, we want to use the same tech. I built ssb-tribes for Ahau, and now Manyverse is soon to benefit from that mahi (work/ labour). Likewise, we get to benefit in Ahau from the awesome work Staltz, Arj and other have done with Meta-Feeds and db2, replication schedular.

I see it as a socio-techinical substrate yes. And I don't want to think of SSB just as a FB-like layer, I want many layers, all local-centric and community enhancing.

I see some use in private messages and closed groups, but I hope the scuttleverse will remain primarily a public place. The notion of social distance is a good criterion for getting relevant content and maintaining informal communities. I prefer this to closed groups with binary exclusion/inclusion. Readable relevant content is the incentive to replicate feeds. As this is what keeps the network alive I'm worried that too much private content could endanger the contribution of resource to the network.