Has anybody looked at building a web-enabled asynchronous distributed social media platform using Secure Scuttlebutt yet?

Run a SSB full-duplex server, tie a read address, a write address, and the last-known-good location of a public key in a well-formatted key repo to a consistent name scheme. Set up a "friends list" poller of sites to check for updates and a threadpool to do it asychronously in the background.

@literorrery I have had ideas similar to Secure Scuttlebutt before. The biggest problem I’ve found is how to not be locked to the desktop or any single device at all.

@xurnami I have some design ideas on that, but I haven't fully explored them. Encrypt-at-rest is pretty easy to manage, though, and pass codes can be kept client-side and datablocks downloaded on demand.

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