Category: Technical Labour

Scuttlebutt is a peer-to-peer social network that is completely decentralized and independent of the standard…

Scuttlebutt is a peer-to-peer social network that is completely decentralized and independent of the standard internet. It is resilient at every level unlike federated services like Diapora and Mastodon.

It reminds me of the old FidoNet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet systems I used to use many years ago, long before I had access to the internet. The difference is that this technology is designed to be secure.

I also remember chatting with a political activist years later who said he regretted the disappearance of those old BBS networks because they were much harder for repressive governments to censor and control. He used to hand out floppy disks to activists across the world to facilitate communication that was outside of the listening range of government eavesdroppers.

Scuttlebutt looks to me like a return to this older, more resilient and ultimately more liberating approach to social networking. This technology is part of the solution Andre Staltz was talking about in history TEDx talk that I posted yesterday.

https://plus.google.com/+JohnAHardy/posts/Qao9ED1REbX

https://vimeo.com/236358264