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You linked two pages with practically no data. I'll paste all relevant data from both to save others the trouble.

> Scuttlebutt can be transformative for society, decentralizing and enabling local community development free of big corp. It is a fast growing decentralized social network. As an alternative to the large corporate social networks it enables autonomy for the users and a free zone from big data harvesting...

> Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem.[3][4] Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency.[5] Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of messages published by an author.[6] SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks, and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network.[7][8]



I gave enough context for why to follow those links (to understand the motivation behind Secure Scuttlebutt) and I think most users of this site are just as competent as you are at clicking on links. I didn’t see any reason to copy/paste from them.

Besides, that’s not all the relevant data. The person I responds to was concerned about the motives around SSB. Going to the community’s main site and seeing the summary on Wikipedia would help them discover it (or the claimed motivations).




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