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var page = require('../../page.part')
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module.exports = () => page({
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  title: 'Social network',
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  section: 'docs',
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  tab: 'guides-protocols',
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  path: '/social/social-network.html',
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  content: `
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    <h2>Social network</h2>
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    <p>
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      Scuttlebot forms a global cryptographic social network with its peers.
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      Each user is identified by a public key, and publishes a log of signed messages, which other users "follow."
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    </p>
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    <p>
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      Scuttlebot searches the P2P mesh for new messages and files from followed users and from FoaFs.
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      The messages and files are stored locally, indefinitely, for applications to read.
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    </p>
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    <h3>Identity</h3>
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    <p>
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      Users are identified by confirmations in the social graph.
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      This is known as a Web-of-Trust.
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      There is no global registry of usernames.
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      Instead, users name themselves, and share petnames for each other.
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    </p>
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    <p>
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      Discovery occurs by examining the social graph, or by out-of-band sharing.    
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      Applications can analyze the follow-graph, and look for "flag" messages, to determine who is trust-worthy in the network.
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    </p>
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    <h3>Pub Servers</h3>
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    <p>
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      "Pubs" are bot-users that have public IPs.
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      They follow users and rehost the messages to other peers, ensuring good uptime and no firewall blockage.
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    </p>
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    <p>
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      Pubs have no special privileges, and are not trusted by users.
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      However, because Scuttlebot has no DHT or NAT-traversal utilities, users must "join" a Pub to distribute their messages on the WAN.
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    </p>
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    <p>
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      Scuttlebot can change Pubs, or join more than one, and sync directly over Wifi.
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      Identity is not tied to the Pubs.
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    </p>
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    <p class="next"><a href="/docs/social/follow-users.html">Follow users</a></p>
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    <ul class="see-also">
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      <li><a href="/whitepapers/secure-scuttlebutt.html">Secure Scuttlebutt</a></li>
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    </ul>
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  `
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})