git ssb

%lmELhGVLXcWrygyG0whgkzkmjlmiB1jZf5EshQ5zfhs=.sha256

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    "text": "[@jpope](@sgg/6UCa9P0Ss8biHwyq/lGYCV5X3d+AFFRabbZoUp4=.ed25519) how i'd put it:\n\ntwitter implements a social network (decentralized network of friends and influencers) on a computer network with a different topology (data center hub and user spokes)\n\nTwister implement a social network (again, dexnet of friends & followors) on a uniformly distributed decentralized network, user feeds distributed across a DHT (distributed hash table) and a blockchain (for user names) - twister is decentralized, but it's uniformly decentralized, each peer puts in roughly the same commitment of resources, which sounds like a good thing, sure.\nBut this means that twister is a decentralized implementation of a centralized _idea_, and thus conceputallly centralized.\n\nBut secure-scuttlebutt is different, it maps a the social network on to a computer network that is essentially the same topology! that is, the connections between humans maps approximately to the the connections between computers. if you follow someone, you really actually follow them at the data layer.\n\nI feel this means the user experience is in harmony with the architecture of the system.\n\nI can't fairly claim that ssb isn't conceputally centralized right now, because there is only a small number of developers, but there is nothing in the architecture that prevents having many implementations - so if we succeed, I think that will happen.",
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