@icefox
There's a lot of interesting people on it, but a majority of the conversations are mainly people talking about scuttlebutt and gossip.
Those same folks have a ton of cool projects to read about, though, and some of the app ideas they have regarding the protocol are really creative (blog platform, file and web hosting, chat, chess, book reviews, and music player are just some of the things).
@sentamalin Honestly sounds higher signal than Mastodon... I'll check it out.
If it ends up being a nice social-net-ish system of communication in general, it might be useful for other things, using references to DAT or IPFS for large data stuff.
@icefox, I'm curious to see what ideas actually work well or don't work well with Scuttlebutt and the Gossip protocol it runs in. It's definitely offline-capable and decentralized. Whether through Pubs or through Local Discovery, you only have connections in such a web:
You -> Who You Follow -> Who They Follow
It certainly models how Gossip normally works (kinda) in real world, though. Like, "Hey, I did this recently. Did you hear that this other person did this?"
@sentamalin Ok but are there any workable Android clients for SSB? :-/ I can't bloody find any.
@icefox Not yet. Andre Staltz is working on MMMMM, but it's honestly not "ready for everyday use" (watermark on app added by him and the folks working on it).
Thus, its utility for me is really only when I'm on a computer with my keys. Somehow that feels okay, because it doesn't have that feeling that you need to be on it all the time. Just go when you can go to the Pub, or see someone you're following.