I’ve sparsely been using scuttlebutt for the past few months and I quite like it! On paper. I like the network a lot, but all the pubs (that is, public servers) I went to were populated almost exclusively by devs and programmers of all sorts. Nothing against them, far from it, it’s just that because I know next to nothing about coding, most of the conversations go over my head. Maybe it’s just bad luck on my part, I don’t know.
That said, I wish the project all the best and will continue to support them. The world needs a good alternative to popular social networks, which range from dodgy to outright malevolent.
populated almost exclusively by devs and programmers
I guess this is mostly due to scuttlebutt still being a cool new tech you would mostly hear about in programmer circles. It’s still not mature enough for your regular facebook people to adopt too. I mean the internals are still running on javascript, which makes it much slower than it could be.
From my own experience with the ssb mainnet there are at least some non-programmer folks, perhaps you just didn’t get a chance to sync with them yet?
I guess this is mostly due to scuttlebutt still being a cool new tech you would mostly hear about in programmer circles. It’s still not mature enough for your regular facebook people to adopt too.
Yeah, I figured that was the case going in. That’s my experience with most nascent projects. I just really, really liked the project and wanted to give it a shot and I’m not sorry I did. But yes, I feel it’s still a ways away before non-tech savvy people start joining.
I’ve sparsely been using scuttlebutt for the past few months and I quite like it! On paper. I like the network a lot, but all the pubs (that is, public servers) I went to were populated almost exclusively by devs and programmers of all sorts. Nothing against them, far from it, it’s just that because I know next to nothing about coding, most of the conversations go over my head. Maybe it’s just bad luck on my part, I don’t know.
That said, I wish the project all the best and will continue to support them. The world needs a good alternative to popular social networks, which range from dodgy to outright malevolent.
I guess this is mostly due to scuttlebutt still being a cool new tech you would mostly hear about in programmer circles. It’s still not mature enough for your regular facebook people to adopt too. I mean the internals are still running on javascript, which makes it much slower than it could be.
From my own experience with the ssb mainnet there are at least some non-programmer folks, perhaps you just didn’t get a chance to sync with them yet?
Yeah, I figured that was the case going in. That’s my experience with most nascent projects. I just really, really liked the project and wanted to give it a shot and I’m not sorry I did. But yes, I feel it’s still a ways away before non-tech savvy people start joining.
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