@alanz: no preassure :) just wanted to let you know it exists.

@masukomi glad you find it interesting! :D

is there no way to just say "suck in every feed you can find" ?

yup! there is buffalo task db:crawl (without arguments) which iterates all feeds from contact messages that are not in the database yet. It's a bit hidden in the README.... It also isn't very clever about follow->unfollow or follow->block yet so it might catch more crabs than you want...

am i right in assuming that db:refresh just pulls in new messages since the last time it ran?

yup! spot on!

I've only run sbot server ...

I feared this will make it more confusing... If you run sbot server that's perfect, they the same thing! Just make sure to adapt the env vars from the README (like SSB_ADDR) if yours is not on localhost:8008 or if you want to seed from a remote pub (also change the pubkey then).

(background: The scuttlebot repo got renamed ssb-server. It seems more in line with the other repos and modules but it ruined a very solid metaphore and probably lots of existing documentation along the way.. )