scuttlebot.io / scuttlebutt.nz

https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot

MIT license free as in beer and freedom zoztware :)

amuza
> "I like researching Free Software communications apps that are decentralized ..."

You might be interested in the DWeb series of blog posts on this topic. Here is the piece published there on Scuttlebutt:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-social-feeds-with-secure-scuttlebutt/

> "I have played the most with Bitmessage, Retroshare and ZeroNet"

I'd love to learn more about your experiences with these apps. Have you written them up somewhere, eg on a blog or on these forums? If not, that would be really helpful.

> "I am hearing about this scuttlebutt.nz/scuttlebot.io which I have not tested yet"

I can't comment on the intricacies of the licensing, security etc (I know when I'm not qualified to commment), but I will say that I know the man who created the original Scuttlebutt, who I met through a local MakerSpace, and I know of a number of the other core contributors through their involvement in projects related to Enspiral and Loomio. So I can confirm that this tech was not created by some shady group of spooks or crackers, but a group of people who share our concerns about software freedom and privacy. If there are any freedom or security issues with any Scuttlebutt / SSB implementation, I'm confident it would be worth bringing them up with the devs, and that they would be taken seriously and addressed ASAP.

Thank you both. That last paragraph is just what I needed.

No, I haven't written anything on Bitmessage, Retroshare or ZeroNet. As a short introduction I can tell you that Bitmessage could be an email replacement, ZeroNet could be a web replacement and Retroshare is a Friend-To-Friend network app where friends and friends of friends (if you allow it) have chat, mail, forums, channels and file-sharing.

If you have questions, please ask and I'll try to answer them.