Comment by nanomonkey | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nanomonkey | Hacker News Reader

I've found that most tech these days are dog fooding their own products. I've been a happy participant on Secure Scuttlebutt for the last 5 years, where approximately a third of the conversation is about Scuttlebutt, where the protocol should be going, what's going on with each client, and coming to consensus on how to distribute funds or encourage further growth.

The same thing is true for Disaster Radio, SudoMesh and other mesh networks...you use the technology to talk about the technology, coordinate growth and goof around with inside jokes.

I'd be surprised if soon electric cars (...domestic robots, razor crest spacecrafts) didn't all have internal forums where folks talked about the technology itself.

So the question is what are you interested in connecting with people about? Robotics clubs have a different needs for interacting than say the folks interested in the Gemini protocol.

SSB is a really neat project. I saw today that the Patchwork client is no longer recommended, but there don't appear to be any other equivalent frontends. Do you have any recommendations?

I think patchbay is the preferred client? But it hasn't been updated in over a year.

https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay

I still use Patchwork or Patchfoo. But Manyverse is probably the more up to date and worked on client. That or Patchfox, which is a firefox plugin that uses one of the other clients (like Patchwork) as a SSB client/daemon of sorts.

I'm very new to the SSB-verse but I've been following Manyverse [1] and each update trying to assess if it's ready for prime time. I am stoked that the Desktop app has landed and am seriously considering setting up a room. On the horizon (for SSB, in general) is shared accounts across clients which I think is the last big hurdle, imo.

[1]: https://www.manyver.se/

If you love hobbies where the hobby is to build up your hobby to talk about your hobby, you'll love ham radio.

How does SB compare to other options here (is this like Mastodon?)?

SSB is most similar to a p2p bit torrent with discovery servers vs federated social network like mastodon. The protocol was originally created by a guy who lived on a boat and wanted to browse a network offline, respond offline, then when he came into harbor upload/download updates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt#History

ah that's very interesting, especially considering that I like sailing!

(hopefully Musk's planet-covering nodes will make the internet ubiquitous even out in the ocean...)

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