Anyone GNU/Linux users out there keen to kick the tyres on the #Scuttlebutt / #SSB network, without having to wrestle with #npm? #TIL that #Patchwork, apparently the most noob-friendly SSB app, has been packaged as an #AppImage:
https://appimage.github.io/Patchwork/
#ShowerThoughts pure #P2P networks don't really make much sense for public #SocialMedia. It would be a ridiculous waste of storage for every single member of a subReddit to have a complete copy of its history on their own hard drive, let alone every subscriber to a YT channel. They make a lot more sense for private #SocialNetworks, among family and friends, or colleagues, in which the total data is smaller and you ideally want it stored locally anyway.
Fully concur, in case of SSB the size of your `.ssb` dir grows at alarming rate as you follow more people.
You can however periodically delete the whole dir and as long as you preserve your secret key it will over time download all messages you ever followed *and* your own posts too from the others.
I don't think there's a reasonable compromise here but eternal storage isn't really what I'm looking for in social network...
