This is interesting, and I really like the idea of the gossip protocol.
As a shiny-new user, I’m finding it difficult to find conversations to get involved in. I grabbed a pub invite, and there’s no way that I immediately see to look over -all- public posts to see where the activity is, it appears I have to blindly pick specific channels and hope there’s something there. There is an active channel list, but on the pub I hit, that entire list is currently populated with porn.
Is there some way to link an account between devices? That seems to be a missing functionality that I would think important for wider use; if you can’t use it on both your desktop and your phone interchangeably, that would be a huge minus.
there’s no way that I immediately see to look over -all- public posts to see where the activity is
entire list is currently populated with porn
That sucks :( But it can also be used to illustrate an important point about the sort of essence of scuttlebutt, which is being pull-first. You must be “pulled-in” to join social circles. This means it’s harder to get into any given circle, which can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Once you have established a presence on the network (meaning you have at least a few people follow you and replicate your feed) and are not reliant on public pubs, chances of getting unwanted porn are really quite low. It’s a great example of what I would call grassroots moderation, where the task of blocking unwanted actors and content is spread out across all users in a way.
If you want people to replicate your feed you may want to introduce yourself on #new-people channel, at least that’s where the introductions happen on the mainnet.
Is there some way to link an account between devices
As far as I’m aware there is no good way to do this. What people often do is they will make another feed (“account”) on their phone and ask their friends to follow that one as well.
This is interesting, and I really like the idea of the gossip protocol.
As a shiny-new user, I’m finding it difficult to find conversations to get involved in. I grabbed a pub invite, and there’s no way that I immediately see to look over -all- public posts to see where the activity is, it appears I have to blindly pick specific channels and hope there’s something there. There is an active channel list, but on the pub I hit, that entire list is currently populated with porn.
Is there some way to link an account between devices? That seems to be a missing functionality that I would think important for wider use; if you can’t use it on both your desktop and your phone interchangeably, that would be a huge minus.
That sucks :( But it can also be used to illustrate an important point about the sort of essence of scuttlebutt, which is being pull-first. You must be “pulled-in” to join social circles. This means it’s harder to get into any given circle, which can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Once you have established a presence on the network (meaning you have at least a few people follow you and replicate your feed) and are not reliant on public pubs, chances of getting unwanted porn are really quite low. It’s a great example of what I would call grassroots moderation, where the task of blocking unwanted actors and content is spread out across all users in a way.
If you want people to replicate your feed you may want to introduce yourself on
#new-peoplechannel, at least that’s where the introductions happen on the mainnet.As far as I’m aware there is no good way to do this. What people often do is they will make another feed (“account”) on their phone and ask their friends to follow that one as well.
Thanks for the feedback; I created a post on #new-people and we’ll see how that goes.
I suppose I could also look for more pubs, right now I only snagged an invite from one of the public ones.