I think this comment comes closest to the "correct" answer here:

> It's p2p, no webapps.

That is to say, this is not a "service" that you use, so there is no scuttlebutt.com where you just sign up. The software running the replication, and the storage backing it, will be local. Insofar you will always eventually want to run this locally.

Now, of course some fine folks are working around that with modern web tech (see @arj's sibling comment) but the whole idea of this project is that you will locally control your data.

There is a browser based demo you can try out at: https://between-two-worlds.dk/.

It's the latest build of https://github.com/arj03/ssb-browser-demo.

If you need an id to follow to get some data, you can try following @6CAxOI3f+LUOVrbAl0IemqiS7ATpQvr9Mdw9LC4+Uv0=.ed25519. You need to manually add either a room or a pub under connections first.

On the topic of untrusted executables, is there a decent GUI to run arbitrary programs inside the MacOS app sandbox? Last I checked, users still had to fiddle with config files and command-line incantations, but at least it was possible:

https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/how-to-run-your-...

There is Feedless ⌘ https://feedless.social/

However, it has some serious limitations compared to e.g. Oasis. One of them is that it limits messages to 140 characters, where all other apps I know of accept up to 8192 characters (including metadata).

The Oasis SSB client [1] is a webapp which you open in the browser. Oasis (like nearly all SSB clients) is a JavaScript package which you can install via npm.

[1] https://github.com/fraction/oasis

It's p2p, no webapps.