Reinvent the social web
summary
Claims a working decentralized social protocol called Scuttlebutt that provides full offline browsing, cryptographic identities (Libsodium with Ed25519 keys), and peer replication over LAN/Bluetooth/TCP/WebSockets using Dominic Tar’s secret-handshake (SHS). Shows concrete apps (Patchwork, Patchbay, a React Native mobile client) and a git‑like SSB workflow; implementations exist in Node.js, C, Rust and Go. Community deployment has about 8,000 people, key sharding (Dark Crystal) enables account recovery, and the demos run and replicate as described.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:31The Web is dying
- 1:24Hypertext
- 2:38Social Web
- 3:19Content growth
- 6:18Scuttlebutt
- 6:40Social graph = network topology
- 11:08Tech stack
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