• [$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Apr 8 06:40:09 2026


    Not many people live on sailboats. Things may be better these days, but
    back in 2014 sailboat dwellers had
    to contend with lag-prone,
    intermittent, low-bandwidth internet connections. Dominic Tarr

    decided
    to fix the problem of keeping up with his friends by developing a delay-tolerant,
    fully distributed social-media protocol called

    Scuttlebutt. Nearly twelve
    years later, the protocol has gained a number of users who have their own, non-sailboat-related reasons to prefer a censorship-resistant,
    offline-first social-media system.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1065471/
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