2 years ago

Category: Database, Data, android, ios, github

When Twitter began imposing limits on its API for third-party developers in 2010, it sent a strong signal to developers that centralized platforms weren’t to be trusted. Now, in 2021, there is a growing underground project called Scuttlebutt that is tackling the decentralized web from a different perspective. Unlike Diaspora and Mastodon, Scuttlebutt is not a product for end-users — rather, it’s a protocol (like HTTP or RSS).

Bluetooth), or when you share it to a “pub” you belong to (a server hub of other users).

Back to Manyverse now: another thing it took me a couple of days to grok is that you don’t have a single identity across different devices.