![]() The central idea of the Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) protocol is simple: your social account is just a cryptographic keypair (your identity) plus a log of messages (your feed) stored in a local database. Instead of attempting to adapt existing Web technologies for the mobile social era, Scuttlebutt allows us to start from scratch the construction of a new ecosystem. The social metaphor of mainstream platforms is now a more popular way of creating and consuming content than the Web is. As a JavaScript open source programmer, I discovered Scuttlebutt two years ago as a promising foundation for a new “social web” that provides an alternative to proprietary platforms. Scuttlebutt is a free and open source social network with unique offline-first and peer-to-peer properties. –Dietrich Ayala Getting started with Scuttlebutt This post is written by André Staltz, who has written extensively on the fate of the web in the face of mass digital migration to corporate social networks, and is a core contributor to the Scuttlebutt project. What they have in common: These projects are open source, and open for participation, and share Mozilla’s mission to keep the web open and accessible for all. These projects aren’t affiliated with Mozilla, and some of them rewrite the rules of how we think about a web browser. In the weeks ahead we will cover a variety of projects that represent explorations of the decentralized/distributed space. Our first installment in the Dweb series introduces Secure Scuttlebutt, which envisions a world where users are in full control of their communities online. In the series introduction, we highlighted the importance of putting people in control their social interactions online, instead of allowing for-profit companies be the arbiters of hate speech or harassment.
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