git ssb

2+

business-zach / ssb-onboarding-DEFUNCT



Commit cd3337c8c22bba6b468f97cbf6d3f2ce78694139

Added Facebook and Persona Articles

Zach committed on 11/16/2017, 7:27:21 AM
Parent: b42e0171ca5dab4b5de7c7ad3eee309341e5143d

Files changed

non-dev-resources.mdchanged mode from 100644 to 100755
facebook-tutorial.mdadded
personas.mdadded
non-dev-resources.mdView
@@ -26,8 +26,21 @@
2626 would also be designed to work on their own and without any context. In this way, each piece could
2727 be shared through the old internet's existing channels as interesting standalone pieces, but they
2828 would lead people to scuttlebutt.nz and all the other riches to be found there.
2929
30 +# Who These Resources are Meant for
31 +
32 +There's millions of people with computers who quality as "non-technically minded". I do not think
33 +we should try to make materials that would speak to any of these millions. Instead, we should focus
34 +on the types of non-technical people we'd love to have in our community now, and focus our language
35 +to them. This aims for a slower, more organic growth that builds upon our awesome, emerging
36 +culture.
37 +
38 +I've written up a list of personas that I think fit the type of people we should direct our efforts
39 +to. It can be found here: [Personas](personas.md)
40 +
41 +If you think there is someone missing from that list, please feel free to make a pull request!
42 +
3043 # Examples of Resources to be Made with this Grant
3144
3245 **Introduction to Scuttlebutt in Less than 3 Minutes**
3346
@@ -61,10 +74,15 @@
6174 feed is "centralized" in the first place. This would be a video/article that breaks down step by
6275 step what happens when you send a FB message to your grandma, and what happens when you post
6376 a status update about your feelings on twitter. Through these illustrations, the core flaws of
6477 these programs will be made more clear, and offer better context for discussing why the technical
65-aspects of SSB are important.
78 +aspects of SSB are important.
6679
80 +Resources:
81 +
82 +[Understanding Centralized Models, or, How to Send a Message to your Grandma On Facebook: A Step by
83 +Step Guide](facebook-tutorial.md)
84 +
6785 **How to Throw an SSB Party**
6886
6987 An awesome way to get started with SSB is to have a bunch of your friends all join on the same local
7088 network and you see how the tech works on a personal level. Also, there are many users who find SSB
facebook-tutorial.mdView
@@ -1,0 +1,283 @@
1 +## Centralization vs. Decentralization: Facebook Example
2 +
3 +# Introduction
4 +
5 +A core aspect of Scuttlebutt is that we are decentralized, meaning we don't rely on any central
6 +server. This aspect is deeply important to our community, as we believe decentralized systems will
7 +help bring a more optimistic and equal future. This aspect also makes Scuttlebutt markedly
8 +different from the internet, as most sites and services there are centralized.
9 +
10 +This centralized design is not obvious. Web developers want their sites to be simple and
11 +accessible, so the technical processes that power them are hidden in the background. But the
12 +technical side has a profound affect on what is and is not possible online, as well as the level of
13 +influence these sites have upon your general life.
14 +
15 +To better understand what makes Scuttlebutt different, it's good to know how exactly a centralized
16 +system works. So let's take a look at how something simple, like sending a personal message, works
17 +with a centralized model. Specifically, let's take a look at how it'd work on Facebook. And to be
18 +even more specific, let's say it’s a message to your grandma.
19 +
20 +A quick note: There's an absurd amount that happens behind the scenes when you do anything online,
21 +more than I could cover in a 10 minute read. This article is meant to explain the fundamental
22 +essence of a centralized site, and so some complexities are simplified into their basic conceptual
23 +model. It’s sorta like how the phrase "It’s raining outside" should not be considered a definitive
24 +description of weather, but still gets a necessary point across.
25 +
26 +And so, let’s get to the point!
27 +
28 +
29 +**How to Send a Facebook Message to your Grandma: a Step-by-Step Guide**
30 +
31 +**The Setup:** It's a Thursday afternoon, and you realize you haven't talked to your grandma in
32 +a while. You know your grandma's bookclub meets on Wednesdays, and so you come up with the
33 +(incredible) idea of sending her the message: "Hey Grandma, how are you! How was book club
34 +yesterday?"
35 +
36 +**You open up your computer and head to *www.facebook.com**
37 +
38 +-At this moment, the first key technical process occurs. Which is that your computer requests some
39 +information from the server that holds Facebook. The words 'facebook.com' are an address for where,
40 +within the vast network of the internet, this server broadcasts itself, but the server is actually
41 +a physical _thing_ living somewhere in the real world. Since Facebook (the site) is huge , it's
42 +server must be huge too-- rows upon stacks upon rows of simultaneously running computers, all housed
43 +in a giant warehouse situated in the middle of nowhere so Facebook can save on real estate costs.
44 +This warehouse will likely be near some natural body of water, like a river. The server is
45 +receiving, storing, and sending everyone’s messages at once, which causes it to get get _hot_. By
46 +diverting water from the river, Facebook has a natural, inexpensive coolant, a grand version of the
47 +icepack you place beneath your computer when you want to watch a movie and use photoshop at the same
48 +time.
49 +
50 +When you access Facebook on the browser, your computer sends a request to this idyllic riverside
51 +monolith, which responds by showing you the data on its server it would like you to see. In this
52 +case, it's the homepage. Because the internet is awesome and powerful, this transaction happens
53 +near instantaneously. But what's important to remember is that your computer is _viewing_ the data
54 +that makes up the site, but it is not holding it. All of it is still living on the distant server.
55 +It's like when you video chat with someone: you can see their nice face and messy room, but their
56 +face and room are not alive inside your computer. When you go onto their site, Facebook lets you
57 +view your photos, friends, memories, and posts, without you holding any of them yourself.
58 +
59 +**You log into your FB account**
60 +
61 +The server holds all the data about Facebook; not just your Facebook, the entirety of the site from
62 +back when it was `thefacebook`. To make managing their data easier, FB will optimize how it's
63 +stored, how it's organized, and how the server should access it. But this efficiency is designed to
64 +help computers and servers, and so the information that makes up facebook, when viewed as just data
65 +on a hard drive, would likely make very little sense to you. There would not be a folder called
66 +"You!" that held all your stuff, and placed neatly beside folders called "Your Friend!" and "Your
67 +Grandma!". Instead, the entire site is a folded up, byzantine jumble of efficiency. -
68 +
69 +Facebook creates _the illusion_ of order through the metaphor of a user account. User accounts give
70 +filtered views into the data, so you only see things relevant to you. To ensure your unique view
71 +cannot be seen by other users, they let you assign your username a password, so your partitioned
72 +view is specific to a login (or at least to whomever knows your login). This information about
73 +usernames and passwords _also_ lives on Facebook's server, in its own database. This is why you may
74 +have your _classic_ nickname that everyone knows you by, but when you try to choose that as
75 +a username, Facebook tells you it's already taken. The server had scanned the database of all
76 +Facebook names to see if the one you asked for already exists in some row. Since it does, it asks
77 +if you'd prefer to use "ClassicNicknameEveryoneKnowsMeBy2". If you choose that, it'll then add your
78 +new nickname as a new row to the database.
79 +
80 +The essential point is that your personal, protected Facebook account is a metaphor, designed to
81 +give you a feeling of security and a personalized, filtered view into your data. These accounts
82 +protect your view from being seen by other users, and protect Facebook's private company data from
83 +being seen by you. User accounts are effective metaphors, and provide a great user experience, but
84 +do not reflect how your data is being physically held and processed. In reality, the server is
85 +holding your memories, friends and photos in a big cyber stew of everyone’s friends, memories and
86 +photos. From this view, things like “private messages” or “closed groups” don’t really mean
87 +anything. This is because the structure and rules of your data is designed for Facebook's servers,
88 +and not for you.
89 +
90 +**You open a Private Message Window, add your Grandma as the recipient, and write her your message.**
91 +
92 +When you click the send button on your private message, it doesn't actually send it to yourgrandma.
93 +Instead, it sends it to Facebook's server with a request for them to please give your Grandma access
94 +to it. Facebook stores your message in their database, and then decides whether or not they pass it
95 +along.
96 +
97 +Giving Facebook this responsibility has some benefits. For example: if your grandmother blocked
98 +you, for some reason, then Facebook would not send your message. Or, if you weren't friends with
99 +your Grandma yet, then Facebook wouldn't send it directly to her, instead placing it in her 'other'
100 +inbox so she doesn’t get too much non-friend spam. In most cases, they'll send your message as you
101 +asked and do it so quickly you don't realize this exchange took place, but on a technical level, the
102 +delivery of your private message is a decision Facebook gets to make, and you don't have any say in
103 +the matter.
104 +
105 +There's quite a lot that happens when you add your message to Facebook’s server, besides it being
106 +eventually sent to your grandma. This is a partial summary of some of the decisions and processes
107 +that take place.
108 +
109 +First, a package is sent from your computer to Facebook's server, where it will now reside. This
110 +package says:
111 + - I would like to send a message to my grandma.
112 + - I want this message to be private.
113 + - here are the contents: "Hi! Grandma, how was book club yesterday?"
114 +
115 +Facebook parses the entirety of the message, the context of it withinyour relationship to your
116 +grandma, and the conclusions it can draw from the exchange. Then it uses all these things to make
117 +some money.
118 +
119 +This isn't necessarily evil. Facebook _needs_ to make money to keep its server running, as that’s
120 +what keeps the site online. Since all of Facebook.com lives on this, it gets expensive: There's the
121 +price of the warehouse, the cost of the actual physical devices holding the information, the staff
122 +maintaining this hardware, the staff continually working on the software to keep it technically
123 +updated and secure, and the staff handling the upkeep of the space itself. There’s also all the
124 +people working in some way for Facebook(the company), and they need to get paid too.
125 +
126 +Facebook chose advertising, essentially, as their business model. They sell ad space, like many
127 +sites do. What makes Facebook powerful, though, is that they can offer targeted ad space--in other
128 +words, they give advertisers the ability to reach the right people with the right things at the
129 +right time. Facebook does this by accumulating as much data as possible from you and your social
130 +connections, from which they build a highly specific customer profile of you. They can then sell
131 +the ad space of your specific partition to the companies that want to target your profile. This
132 +helps the companies make sure their marketing budget is bringing in the highest return on
133 +investment.
134 +
135 +Since all Facebook activity is stored within a central server, Facebook is able to make some
136 +stunning connections and conclusions from the data available to them — connections you may not see.
137 +
138 +For example, they quickly parse your message and conclude that the specific user account you chose
139 +as the message recipient is your grandma, which puts her in a generational demographic. They also
140 +know you submitted the message on a Thursday, but asked about a book club that happened yesterday.
141 +So they know your grandma has a regular book club on Wednesdays. Next, they look at all your
142 +grandma's other private messages, and find several from someone named Victor who always messages her
143 +"Sorry, i'm going to be late! Should I bring anything?" at 12:30 pm on Wednesday. They find several
144 +other friends writing "what a great time!" around 4 pm. So they conclude that the book club is
145 +likely happening from 1 to 3 and that Victor is a member. In addition, they have a small
146 +personality sketch of Victor.
147 +
148 +As they have all of Victor's other data, they can read through any of his private or public
149 +messages. They find a private message from December asking how he likes his new iPhone. They also
150 +find a public message from him exclaiming "So much to do, and not enough time!" further solidifying
151 +his customer profile.
152 +
153 +All of this culminates next Wednesday morning, when an advertisement for Audible.com is placed on
154 +Victor's Facebook feed. Facebook knows he'll be going to a book club, is always pressed for time,
155 +has an iPhone, and would probably be susceptible to signing up for some audio books. They could
156 +even use data they're pulling from other sites they maintain a presence on (usually through a like
157 +or share button). For example, they could see Victor bought a specific mystery thriller from Amazon
158 +that your grandma also bought, determine it's a _mystery_ book club the two of them are in, and
159 +adjust the book featured in the Audible advertisement so it’s even more persuasive.
160 +
161 +In this way, a message you sent to your grandma is used to adjust and target the ads for someone you
162 +may have never met. This also helps explain the eerie phenomenon where you are talking in-person
163 +about some upcoming trip that you've never talked about online, and the next day see an add for that
164 +destination on your facebook feed. This could happen because Facebook has bugged your phone and is
165 +listening in on your conversations, or it’s because your friends are talking about you on Facebook
166 +and not telling you. The truth to this paranoia is known only by Facebook.
167 +
168 +With all of the social connections and content you've shared on their network, Facebook has compiled
169 +highly detailed dossier on who you are. This dossier is useful to sell you things, but they found
170 +that the dossier itself can be sold to interested parties. Often, these parties aren't doing any
171 +marketing at all.
172 +
173 +One known party is law enforcement. Security companies have built software intended to help police
174 +find criminals before they've even committed a crime. They do this by pulling in as much data from
175 +social networks as possible, comparing the conversations and activities of the larger population
176 +against people who have been arrested for crimes, and through this determine what sort of social
177 +traits criminals share.
178 +
179 +What this means is that your inquiry about your grandma's bookclub might fit a trait for people
180 +arrested for drug possession, and so when you submit your message you are privately tagged with the
181 +labels "grandchild" and "likely drug offender" Or, you may already be on the list of likely drug
182 +offender, and so your question to your grandma is added to the list of traits these potential
183 +criminals may share. Or the opposite could be true, and your broader Facebook activity put you into
184 +a "law-abider" category. In this case, your activity helps flesh out the "law abider" profile and
185 +by extension the "likely criminal" profile. These profiles are then fed into a computer program that
186 +tells your local police to go knock on someone's door and "check in", because that person didn't
187 +write to their grandma this Thursday, and that seems "suspicious".
188 +
189 +While this example seems absurd, it is just this sort of small connection/large conclusion that is
190 +the heart of "big data" analysis. Big Data is powered by a near-mystic belief that, by grabbing as
191 +much data as possible and sorting it in as many ways as possible, compelling patterns will emerge
192 +and these patterns can predict behaviors and futures.
193 +
194 +All of this data, the targeted adspace, the endless dossiers on who you are — these are worth a lot
195 +of money to a broad set of people. And through selling the data that you generate, Facebook keeps
196 +their servers online, letting them log valuable information on you plus everything else they want to
197 +do. It is how their service stays both free and incredibly profitable.
198 +
199 +**Your Grandma receives the message**
200 +
201 +Now thoroughly vetted, Facebook has the responsibility to send your message to your grandma. But
202 +they may choose a couple different routes, which--since it's on their servers--they have the right
203 +to do.
204 +
205 +If your grandma is on Facebook often, they may decide to show it to her the next time she logs in,
206 +but they'll do so after some random amount of time, to make logging on feel more appealing.
207 +
208 +It's exciting when you have a new notification. It gives you a quick dopamine thrill like seeing
209 +a package in front of your door. Facebook knows this, and knows that this makes their service
210 +addicting, so they try to accentuate this rush as much as possible. So your grandma might sign on
211 +and see nothing in the notification bar for nearly a second, before a bright red '1' appears. Since
212 +she's on the site often, she'll naturally learn that there is this delay, but since it's random she
213 +won't be able to predict how long the delay will be. And so the act of logging on and waiting for
214 +a notification will become a thrilling game of chance, similar to a slot machine.
215 +
216 +If she isn't on the site much, then Facebook may use your message to try to get her back. They've
217 +already read its contents, and know that you're her grandchild, and assume that messages from family
218 +are great leverage for converting someone back into a user. They also likely have her email and
219 +phone number on file, as they asked for both when she signed up. So they will send her an email
220 +with a brief message like "your grandchild wants to talk to you" with a link to get directly into
221 +facebook. If that doesn't work, they may send a text message with something more direct like
222 +"click this to log into facebook right away." In either case, the link they provide will have
223 +a reference token to your message, so if she does log on they'll know that _you_ are the reason why.
224 +They will then subtly alter her newsfeed so that your posts show up more often, since you’ve talked
225 +recently and she must be interested in how you are doing.
226 +
227 +Since user data is their main source of income, they need their users on their site as much as
228 +possible. Even if your grandma wants to take a social media break, it is in Facebook's best
229 +interest to win her back as quickly as possible, and get her addicted as completely as possible.
230 +Your message acts as that addicting hook. In a way, this helps you too, since them selling the fact
231 +that you can influence your grandma helps keep their servers online, and the servers are required
232 +for you to send the message at all.
233 +
234 +**Messages are Read and everyone's happy**
235 +
236 +In centralized systems, the company and it's servers acts as the intermediary for all activity.
237 +There is no way for you to send a message directly to your grandma on facebook. By design, Facebook
238 +has to intercept, store, and send the message for you.
239 +
240 +In this example scenario your grandma receives the message, Victor signs up for Audible, the cops
241 +have a potential new arrest, and everyone is happy. But there are a couple ways this could have
242 +gone wrong, due to it being a centralized model.
243 +
244 +For one, the server that holds your message could have gone down. Since it’s a physical object, the
245 +reason could be as simple as the device getting unplugged. Since the data centers holding the
246 +servers are so huge, they need to be placed in strategic geographic areas, which makes the system
247 +far more fragile than we realize. There have been incidents where, for example, a farmer
248 +accidentally plows right through a remote server cable in their field, and the farmer accidentally
249 +causes a large portion of the internet to go down for hours. There have been other cases where an
250 +employee in charge of maintaining the server forgets some crucial step, and causes a software mishap
251 +that shuts down another part of the internet. These scenarios don't happen often, but are
252 +a necessary risk within centralized systems.
253 +
254 +Alternately, Facebook may find their income model doesn't work and they go out of business. Since
255 +they own the servers, and the data you've placed within them, if they go out of business, then your
256 +messages disappear with them. Most likely, Facebook would tell you they're shutting down, and offer
257 +a way for you to export all your photos, stories, and memories. This is a nicety though, and one
258 +that they do not have to offer. They may not get the chance to do this nicety, either. For
259 +example, two news sites (DNAinfo and TheGothamist) were recently shut down without notice by their
260 +owner because he disagreed with the staff wanting to unionize. In this case, he pulled them offline
261 +so quickly that no professional contributor was able to retrieve the work they had published.
262 +Resumes and portfolios were full of dead links and lack of proof, because of the learned assumption
263 +to rely on a “data cloud”, which is another metaphor intended to hide servers from your view.
264 +Fortunately, the personal data you store on Facebook is worth a lot of money, and Mark Zuckerberg
265 +has promised that he is very nice, so it isn’t likely that they’ll remove your photos anytime soon.
266 +
267 +However, Facebook may also determine that you are not a good fit for their site and block your
268 +access to it. Since access to your account is a metaphor they created, they can easily and legally
269 +do this. In that case, your old information would still live and be sold on the server, but be
270 +inaccessible by you. In extreme cases, a government may decide that Facebook (or its servers) must
271 +be shut down, due to some profound shift in power. In that case, policy-abiding users would have
272 +little say.
273 +
274 +**Conclusion**
275 +
276 +A centralized system like Facebook offers you a way to stay in touch with friends and loved ones. As
277 +you can see, the way you do so is pretty simple, though with a few unexpected steps. A decentralized
278 +model lets you send messages and stay in touch too, but without the need for a central server, and
279 +all the hidden costs and companies that requires.
280 +
281 +
282 +
283 +
personas.mdView
@@ -1,0 +1,108 @@
1 +## Personas
2 +
3 +# Introduction
4 +
5 +Our non-dev resources will be the most successful, and cohesive, if we design them for a specific
6 +audience. SSB is not built for universal adoption, at least right now. So instead, I'd like to
7 +design our outreach to target the people we'd want to join the system at its current stage. As the
8 +system grows, we can make more resources for the broader audiences.
9 +
10 +By targeting a certain kind of audience, we can build a stronger voice for our work. If we tried to
11 +find the words that resonate with all people, or put in all the necessary additional context for any
12 +set of knowledge, then we would water down the videos with good intentions until the actual message
13 +is dissolved from view.
14 +
15 +This document is meant to describe the Personas of people who would make good community members now,
16 +_and_ who do not identify as technically minded. They are not meant as rigid identifiers; any one
17 +person will undoubtedly share traits from multiple personas. But they act as a useful shorthand, and
18 +are illuminating for the traits and types that _don't_ show up here.
19 +
20 +**Nerdy, but not Technical**
21 +- Fan of science fiction, diy music, overlooked films, independent comics. Has diverse tastes, but
22 + they share a bond of being proudly off the beaten path. Champions the quieter voices, and not
23 + liking something _just_ because everyone says you should.
24 +- Social Media is getting boring as it all feels like the same conversation and all depressingly
25 + mainstream.
26 +- Listened to a great podcast episode about cryptocurrencies, and is thinking of getting into
27 + bitcoin, but didn't really know how to start. The podcast brought up really interesting points
28 + about what the future could look like though, and enjoys talking about some of these future
29 + visions.
30 +- Would like to code, can see how it's an art, but "was never good at math" and so don't think they
31 + could do it. But they love programs that makes it feel like they're hacking (torrenting, VLC,
32 + minimal writing programs)
33 +
34 +**Friend/Family Member Who was Told to Check this Out**
35 +
36 +- Was at a gathering where someone they trusted started gushing about Scuttlebutt. Was given a link
37 + to scuttlebutt.nz to learn more, and decided on a whim to check it out.
38 +- Don't necessarily need to know how it all works, or why they would want to use it. They've
39 + already decided to try it for the main reason that their family is on it.
40 +- Understanding how to get on and send a message to their loved one simply will be important. And
41 + some basic navigation of the system.
42 +- At the same time, they may appreciate reading more of the context and history of this system. If
43 + they are wanting to get onto this weird system to connect with their loved one, they likely are
44 + also into being able to talk about this thing their lvoed one is into. Providing accessible
45 + guides into basic internet theory and the decisions behind Scuttlebutt could help.
46 +
47 +**Solarpunk looking for a home**
48 +- Solarpunk is a rising genre that self-describes its origins as a tumblr post. For many Solarpunk
49 + fans, it is right now more of an _idea_ for a thing than a thing itself. Solarpunk describes an
50 + optimistic future where humans live in better harmony with nature and with one another through the
51 + smart use of technology.
52 +- An aspect of solarpunk fandom is sharing real life solarpunk places. Eco-villages in Singapore or
53 + the Arcosanti in Arizona. They also like new technologies that seem to point towards this
54 + Solarpunk future.
55 +- Scuttlebutt _is actually_ Solarpunk, in all major senses of the word. It is a protocol written on
56 + solar power, and a community filled with people living solarpunk lives.
57 +- It can act as a community for folks tired of looking at tumblr art and wanting something else, or
58 + who had just read an awesome brazilian solarpunk sci-fi and seeing what other things within this
59 + genre they can find.
60 +- This persona is looking for a solarpunk, off-grid community and through that finds solarpunk,
61 + off-grid technology.
62 +
63 +**Nice Person who is unsafe on standard social media**
64 +- A marginalized person who faces regular harrassment, stalking, personal attacks, and physical
65 + threats online. Through this has become rightfully exhausted and wary of social media.
66 +- Their experience online likely reflects a similar, and potentially more dangerous, experience in
67 + the greater world. Because of this, safe community is a necessary survival tool.
68 +- Knows that underlying technical structures within the standard social media engenders and powers
69 + abuse, and perhaps has been vocal to the developers of these sites about it. Or has built ways
70 + within the sites to help counteract these structural hazards. This work is exhausting though, and
71 + can make one feel powerless. And has begun to look for alternate online platforms for
72 + communities.
73 +- Because caution is also a necessary survival tool, will likely find scuttlebutt through word of
74 + mouth from within their community. Will then want to get onto the system simply, find their home
75 + quickly, and know they have the tools for safety.
76 +- (I am saying 'nice person' to mean "not a hateful, fascist, transphobic, racist, sexist asshole".
77 + The latter person may also feel unsafe on standard social media, and look for alternate models.
78 + I would want these folks to know they are not welcome in our community, without signalling our
79 + community as a place to attack.)
80 +
81 +**Artist looking for a Platform, burnt out on Social Media**
82 +- the degrading and devaluing aspects of social media has wrecked this person, and made doing their
83 + art feel unfun. At the same time, knows that social media nd self-promotion is a necessary evil
84 + of the modern day.
85 +- Is curious about other models, and perhaps new platforms where they can still share the thigns
86 + they've made without feeling massively depressed afterwards.
87 +- Will be looking for a receptive audience, but may not have defined what that means yet. Will also
88 + be looking for a supportive community of other artists.
89 +- Fully understand the effects that social media has on culture, but is not available to build up
90 + the new tools themselves. But knows awesome ways to make the most of their tools.
91 +- In many cases, reaching this persona will require new clients (ones that are more visual focused,
92 + for example, or have music sharing and streaming as part of it)
93 +
94 +**Snowden is a Patriot. Are you on Signal?**
95 +- Is aware of the terrible privacy issues and security issues of the world today, and the
96 + frightening power large companies have on us--as well as the creeping power of the gov't through
97 + increased surveillance.
98 +- Is aware of this on a broad level, but may not understand the best way to respond. Knows of the
99 + existence of TOR, but thinks of it as a place to buy drugs only. May talk of how cool it'd be to
100 + have an onion site, but no knowledge of how tos tart it.
101 +- Has security concerns, and wishes to have better words to express them and tools to fight them.
102 + Will be drawn to SSB because of it seeming privacy, the end to end encryption, and as a potential
103 + new way to talk to friends securely.
104 +- Will want to host a pub right away, and also ask why pubs are needed. Will be asking technical
105 + questions about the broad security model mostly because they are excited that this may be the
106 + thing they'd been looking for (but don't fully understand what this thing is)
107 +
108 +

Built with git-ssb-web