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I may back up, remove and reinstall #Manyverse before I give up on it. A lot of the people I used to see are overly political. I don’t miss that, but I’m interested—or at least I was—in the potential to enable normal (not politically obsessed) people to connect outside of #corpocentric #socnets.
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So #Manyverse is a client for #SSB, the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol ( see http://status.hackerposse.com/url/22582 ). Read the link to see more about the protocol. At present, I think most implementations are based on Node.js. An important thing in SSB is "Pubs". The link above says this: > "Pubs" are bot-users that have public IPs. They follow users and rehost the messages to o…
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They have no way to notify users when there’s an issue. https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/Pub-Servers
Apparently, there was a crashing bug that took down pubs in certain circumstances. Looks like only one pub is currently open to the public.
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Another issue, which I've observed before. #Manyverse #iOS doesn't respond quickly to user input, so it often seems frozen. I tend to click 3-4 times before I remember to wait for it to respond.
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In any case, the pub outage tells me that #SSB, in its current design, is unsuitable for connecting regular people together.
Maybe I'll look at #Jami again to see whether it's made progress toward fixing its issues.
Or #Tox, or #Briar.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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