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6060 …
6161 … ### [Simple Animation Explaining what to Expect when you first join Patchwork](onboarding-animation.md)
6262 …
6363 … A quick and simple addition to our homepage that shows, in handy GIF form, what is going to happen
64-once Patchwork is done installing and you join SSB.e
64 …+once Patchwork is done installing and you join SSB.
6565 …
66 …+Upon reflection, we realized that it'd be better to not have all the onboarding guides publicly available, and rather to create tools that empower current scuttlers to invite their friends. These tools could include the above onboarding link.
67 …+
68 …+To accomplish this new focus, I made the [Onboarding Link Generator](http://localhost:7718/%25XpYR3HjkbEL40CQhuGpgZ5P55zGJ1p9aI1L1A3jfVag%3D.sha256). This is a command line tool for creating personalized invite pages for yr friends, that have helpful handy links for you!
69 …+
6670 … ### [Our Culture, our Future](future-guides.md)
6771 …
6872 … These are resources around the future we are trying to build through scuttlebutt, and the values we want expressed in that future.
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1818 … "The Future is Fun"
1919 … "The Future is Decentralized"
2020 … "The Future is Available Today"
2121 …
22-I am not yet sure how much imagery of SSB should be used, and how much of this should just be pure _art_ that acts kinda like a manifesto, rather than some tutorial of what scuttlebutt is.
22 …+This video would work well in two parts. One is a 30 second manifesto for the future, that is sort of the 'opening credits' of scuttlebutt.nz (and a clarion call of our purpose). We also have a 3 minute video that expands upons the statements made in that 30 second one, and how these future visions are trying to be realized in Scuttlebutt.
2323 …
24-Perhaps there could be a 30 second video as well as an "Extended Cut" that goes into more details of each of these Future Postulates.
24 …+To help envision this future, I wrote up a call to Scuttlebutt for folks to offer their own visions of the future.
2525 …
26 …+You can read the manifesto about our culture/call for submissions here:
27 …+[Future Guides](cultural-future/future-guides.md)
2628 …
29 …+You can read a distillation of the submissions here:
30 …+[Future Visions](cultural-future/future-visions.md)
31 …+
32 …+
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1-# Our Future Guides
2-
3-# Community
4-
5-Tim Berners-Lee said that he created the world wide web so that his coworkers at CERN could share information without having to leave their desks to talk over coffee. The original point of the web was academic, designed for researchers to find academic papers quickly and work more efficiently.
6-
7-Today, I use the web to stay current with quilt communities I have no intention of joining, download albums of New-Zealand collage pop from my favorite Slovakian cassette label, and read the pleasantly over-literate personal blogs of Singaporean teens running online lit journals. I am sure that when Berners-Lee wrote up his 'vague but interesting' proposal for the web, he cherished the thought that one day everyone in the world could use this creation. I am also sure that he when he imagined "everyone in the world", these weren’t the types of communities he envisioned.
8-
9-Berners-Lee's paper was written in 1989, but the web did not take off in earnest until the introduction of the Mosaic Browser in 1993. In the years between these two events, the web was mostly discussed in usenet communities like alt.hypertext, or at conventions dedicated to European Research Networks. The web was a niche enthusiasm before it became a revolution.
10-
11-I believe that Scuttlebutt will be as important and transformative as the web. With this belief comes the awareness that the group here today is not "Scuttlebutt". Instead, we are the current primary community using Scuttlebutt. There may be others using this protocol that we are not aware of, and there will definitely be a multitude of communities using SSB in the future, for better and worse.
12-
13-## Our Community
14-
15-I know historical events don't follow the same path, and so I am not implying that SSB's development will mirror the web's 1-to-1. But I think the web offers a useful metaphor for how the Scuttleverse could grow. Right now, we are in the "talking on alt.hypertext" phase of our growth: Dominic developed a protocol, and he and we are enthusiastically exploring it's potential in a niche space. The "Eternal September" of mass adoption has not yet come.
16-
17-That makes this a fantastic time for us to share our values and visions of the world with one another. These are not just the values of our technology, but the community within which we build this technology. We can (and should) use our unique community to draw in more enthusiasts, which means our culture should be shared as explicitly as our technology.
18-
19-I think this act is crucial. Using the web as an example again, the culture of those early communities stowed itself within the technology, bleeding out into the wider world. This culture was ingrained in the language people used to describe the web, language which persists today even among my quilting and collage-pop corners. Through this, the values of a small group of people were made manifest in the world itself.
20-
21-# Values
22-
23-What exactly do I mean by this? There are some great books about how certain ideologies, and even a type of gnostic spirituality, were domininant in the early web. _Techgnosis_ and _A Prehistory of the Cloud_ are two books that go into far more depth than this post could.
24-
25-But we can spot these values in the banal, common descriptions of the web. For example:
26-> "With the web, all information is at your fingertips."
27-
28-This statement has persisted so much it feels cliche, and maybe even self-evident. Except there's a heavy opinion being stated in that fact that there is no one else present in the description of the web but you. _You_ have all _Iinformation_ at _your_ fingertips. There is power in information, and not people, and the web delivers to you this power.
29-
30-This idea is present in Tim Berners-Lee first post about his WorldWideWeb in the alt.hyptertext usenet. His post begins:
31-
32-> The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.
33-
34-> The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
35-
36-The web was not, originally, a place for us to mingle and rest. It was not meant to be a communication tool for connecting our different communities, nor the thread with which we weave a vibrant fabric. It is a Global Information System designed for the dissemination and quick retrieval of data.
37-
38-This description fits Berners-Lee's personal impulse for creation. He wanted to use hypertext as a sort of mnemonic library, a way to connect to a value through some easy-to-remember word or phrase. This is akin to the Memory Palaces of old, described by St. Augustine or Giordano Bruno — vast libraries you'd construct in your mind, where every room, object, and hallway held a mnemonic trigger. These memory palaces turned metaphor and imagination into a tool for your brain to hold and retrieve vast treasures of information.
39-
40-This description also recalls William Gibson's description of Cyberspace, in his 1984 novel _Neuromancer_:
41-
42-> Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination...A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system....Lines of light randed in the non space of the mind.
43-
44->...Put the trodes on and they were out there, all the data in the world stacked up like one big neon city, so that you could cruise around and have a kind of grip on it, visually anyway, because if you didn't it was too complicated, trying to find your way to a particular piece of data you needed.
45-
46-It makes sense that cyberspace became a common name for the web. Many of the early web enthusiasts were also cyberpunk fans, and through the metaphors and language, the fictional became conflated with the real. Speculative fiction excites, then guides, us. _Neuromancer_ describes cyberspace in 1984. 5 years later, the web makes it real.
47-
48-It makes sense, then, that we have a few gigantic companies today that seek to retrieve and hold all the information they can — our books, our art, our faces, our relationships, our heartbeats, our locations, our thoughts. Their evil does not come from nowhere; they are simply trying to build the world they were promised.
49-
50-## Our Values
51-
52-Compare these values now to those of Scuttlebutt. SSB is a protocol that was not designed to build a library, but instead a social network. It's aesthetically modeled off Facebook or Twitter, but closer technically to real-life friend circles. It is powered by gossip, and the informal, adaptive ways that communities form and share values. In the concepts and models on scuttlebutt.nz, you see the intent for code to be balanced with humans--for both to help one another-- and the valuing of individual autonomy and subjectivity. The protocol is designed to work with intermittent or no internet connection. In other words, it is intended for all, but recognizes that the world we live in does not have equal access to resources like the internet. I will not speak for Dominic and all of you who have built this wonderful thing, except to say that the technical language I see here does not seem to wish for some neon-metropolitan library of mind-expanding data. Which makes sense: we are not cyberpunks, we are solarpunks.
53-
54-# Proposals for the Future
55-
56-I would like to create a document of our imagined future. I want something that people can access to better understand the world we are building towards. This document would feed our own imaginations, continually reminding us of our shared metaphorical realms. Since this is Scuttlebutt, I want to celebrate our diversity and subjectivity by asking your help on this imagining. What is the future _you_ are building towards, and the tremblings of that future that inspire you today?
57-
58-I'd like to ask you for your future vision in a specific way, which requires a bit of personal context. Since I am not cyberpunk, I'm not going to try to be some sarcastic hacker hero drawing power from anonymity. Instead, I'ma be solarpunk and vulnerable:
59-
60-I get sad a lot. Sadness comes consistently, but unexpectedly, but I've grown to handle it better with time. Depression feels like an unpleasant childhood friend who comes to visit every now and then, who often has some important thing to tell me, but just phrases it so terribly.
61-
62-One method that's helped with my depression is magical thinking. Like the thought that Time exists in more ways than the one we comprehend. And in some fashion, the future me already exists, and has already moved past this sad spell. If I believe that, then maybe the past me also still exists, and is hoping for some better future. And so, in the moments when I feel the most aware, and alive, and happypowerful, I try to send back encouragement to my past self, urging him closer to where I am right now. That way, In the moments when I feel fully under a black cloud, I can seek support from my future self and ask for encouragement — an intuitive direction towards that happier future.
63-
64-If I were to describe the mood of the web today (or at least the people I know within it), it would be depression. Everything gives off a feeling of melancholy, anxiety, and a persistent guilt over not getting enough done. Now the best metaphor for being online is the feeling of being depressed in bed, trying to find the desire to face the day.
65-
66-And so, I'd ask: What is the future you are building for that provides encouragement to your today? How do you see the traces of that future in our community and technology, and how would you describe it to the broader online world, to give it the encouragement to at least stand up and take a shower?
67-
68-Please feel free to reply with your future vision. It can be as far-out, practical, or fantastical as the prompt inspires in you. If you'd like to reply, but not necessarily in public, you can direct message me too. I love this community for the incredible feeling of _potential_ it inspires. I'm excited to read our collected speculative fiction.
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1 …+# Our Future Guides
2 …+
3 …+# Community
4 …+
5 …+Tim Berners-Lee said that he created the world wide web so that his coworkers at CERN could share information without having to leave their desks to talk over coffee. The original point of the web was academic, designed for researchers to find academic papers quickly and work more efficiently.
6 …+
7 …+Today, I use the web to stay current with quilt communities I have no intention of joining, download albums of New-Zealand collage pop from my favorite Slovakian cassette label, and read the pleasantly over-literate personal blogs of Singaporean teens running online lit journals. I am sure that when Berners-Lee wrote up his 'vague but interesting' proposal for the web, he cherished the thought that one day everyone in the world could use this creation. I am also sure that he when he imagined "everyone in the world", these weren’t the types of communities he envisioned.
8 …+
9 …+Berners-Lee's paper was written in 1989, but the web did not take off in earnest until the introduction of the Mosaic Browser in 1993. In the years between these two events, the web was mostly discussed in usenet communities like alt.hypertext, or at conventions dedicated to European Research Networks. The web was a niche enthusiasm before it became a revolution.
10 …+
11 …+I believe that Scuttlebutt will be as important and transformative as the web. With this belief comes the awareness that the group here today is not "Scuttlebutt". Instead, we are the current primary community using Scuttlebutt. There may be others using this protocol that we are not aware of, and there will definitely be a multitude of communities using SSB in the future, for better and worse.
12 …+
13 …+## Our Community
14 …+
15 …+I know historical events don't follow the same path, and so I am not implying that SSB's development will mirror the web's 1-to-1. But I think the web offers a useful metaphor for how the Scuttleverse could grow. Right now, we are in the "talking on alt.hypertext" phase of our growth: Dominic developed a protocol, and he and we are enthusiastically exploring it's potential in a niche space. The "Eternal September" of mass adoption has not yet come.
16 …+
17 …+That makes this a fantastic time for us to share our values and visions of the world with one another. These are not just the values of our technology, but the community within which we build this technology. We can (and should) use our unique community to draw in more enthusiasts, which means our culture should be shared as explicitly as our technology.
18 …+
19 …+I think this act is crucial. Using the web as an example again, the culture of those early communities stowed itself within the technology, bleeding out into the wider world. This culture was ingrained in the language people used to describe the web, language which persists today even among my quilting and collage-pop corners. Through this, the values of a small group of people were made manifest in the world itself.
20 …+
21 …+# Values
22 …+
23 …+What exactly do I mean by this? There are some great books about how certain ideologies, and even a type of gnostic spirituality, were domininant in the early web. _Techgnosis_ and _A Prehistory of the Cloud_ are two books that go into far more depth than this post could.
24 …+
25 …+But we can spot these values in the banal, common descriptions of the web. For example:
26 …+> "With the web, all information is at your fingertips."
27 …+
28 …+This statement has persisted so much it feels cliche, and maybe even self-evident. Except there's a heavy opinion being stated in that fact that there is no one else present in the description of the web but you. _You_ have all _Iinformation_ at _your_ fingertips. There is power in information, and not people, and the web delivers to you this power.
29 …+
30 …+This idea is present in Tim Berners-Lee first post about his WorldWideWeb in the alt.hyptertext usenet. His post begins:
31 …+
32 …+> The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.
33 …+
34 …+> The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.
35 …+
36 …+The web was not, originally, a place for us to mingle and rest. It was not meant to be a communication tool for connecting our different communities, nor the thread with which we weave a vibrant fabric. It is a Global Information System designed for the dissemination and quick retrieval of data.
37 …+
38 …+This description fits Berners-Lee's personal impulse for creation. He wanted to use hypertext as a sort of mnemonic library, a way to connect to a value through some easy-to-remember word or phrase. This is akin to the Memory Palaces of old, described by St. Augustine or Giordano Bruno — vast libraries you'd construct in your mind, where every room, object, and hallway held a mnemonic trigger. These memory palaces turned metaphor and imagination into a tool for your brain to hold and retrieve vast treasures of information.
39 …+
40 …+This description also recalls William Gibson's description of Cyberspace, in his 1984 novel _Neuromancer_:
41 …+
42 …+> Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination...A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system....Lines of light randed in the non space of the mind.
43 …+
44 …+>...Put the trodes on and they were out there, all the data in the world stacked up like one big neon city, so that you could cruise around and have a kind of grip on it, visually anyway, because if you didn't it was too complicated, trying to find your way to a particular piece of data you needed.
45 …+
46 …+It makes sense that cyberspace became a common name for the web. Many of the early web enthusiasts were also cyberpunk fans, and through the metaphors and language, the fictional became conflated with the real. Speculative fiction excites, then guides, us. _Neuromancer_ describes cyberspace in 1984. 5 years later, the web makes it real.
47 …+
48 …+It makes sense, then, that we have a few gigantic companies today that seek to retrieve and hold all the information they can — our books, our art, our faces, our relationships, our heartbeats, our locations, our thoughts. Their evil does not come from nowhere; they are simply trying to build the world they were promised.
49 …+
50 …+## Our Values
51 …+
52 …+Compare these values now to those of Scuttlebutt. SSB is a protocol that was not designed to build a library, but instead a social network. It's aesthetically modeled off Facebook or Twitter, but closer technically to real-life friend circles. It is powered by gossip, and the informal, adaptive ways that communities form and share values. In the concepts and models on scuttlebutt.nz, you see the intent for code to be balanced with humans--for both to help one another-- and the valuing of individual autonomy and subjectivity. The protocol is designed to work with intermittent or no internet connection. In other words, it is intended for all, but recognizes that the world we live in does not have equal access to resources like the internet. I will not speak for Dominic and all of you who have built this wonderful thing, except to say that the technical language I see here does not seem to wish for some neon-metropolitan library of mind-expanding data. Which makes sense: we are not cyberpunks, we are solarpunks.
53 …+
54 …+# Proposals for the Future
55 …+
56 …+I would like to create a document of our imagined future. I want something that people can access to better understand the world we are building towards. This document would feed our own imaginations, continually reminding us of our shared metaphorical realms. Since this is Scuttlebutt, I want to celebrate our diversity and subjectivity by asking your help on this imagining. What is the future _you_ are building towards, and the tremblings of that future that inspire you today?
57 …+
58 …+I'd like to ask you for your future vision in a specific way, which requires a bit of personal context. Since I am not cyberpunk, I'm not going to try to be some sarcastic hacker hero drawing power from anonymity. Instead, I'ma be solarpunk and vulnerable:
59 …+
60 …+I get sad a lot. Sadness comes consistently, but unexpectedly, but I've grown to handle it better with time. Depression feels like an unpleasant childhood friend who comes to visit every now and then, who often has some important thing to tell me, but just phrases it so terribly.
61 …+
62 …+One method that's helped with my depression is magical thinking. Like the thought that Time exists in more ways than the one we comprehend. And in some fashion, the future me already exists, and has already moved past this sad spell. If I believe that, then maybe the past me also still exists, and is hoping for some better future. And so, in the moments when I feel the most aware, and alive, and happypowerful, I try to send back encouragement to my past self, urging him closer to where I am right now. That way, In the moments when I feel fully under a black cloud, I can seek support from my future self and ask for encouragement — an intuitive direction towards that happier future.
63 …+
64 …+If I were to describe the mood of the web today (or at least the people I know within it), it would be depression. Everything gives off a feeling of melancholy, anxiety, and a persistent guilt over not getting enough done. Now the best metaphor for being online is the feeling of being depressed in bed, trying to find the desire to face the day.
65 …+
66 …+And so, I'd ask: What is the future you are building for that provides encouragement to your today? How do you see the traces of that future in our community and technology, and how would you describe it to the broader online world, to give it the encouragement to at least stand up and take a shower?
67 …+
68 …+Please feel free to reply with your future vision. It can be as far-out, practical, or fantastical as the prompt inspires in you. If you'd like to reply, but not necessarily in public, you can direct message me too. I love this community for the incredible feeling of _potential_ it inspires. I'm excited to read our collected speculative fiction.
69 …+
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1 …+# Future Visions
2 …+
3 …+*I shared [Future Guides](future-guides.md) with the Scuttlebutt community, as a prompt for folks to described the future they are fighting for. As I get responses to this thread, I'll post the link to the response plus the keywords I gathered from them, here.*
4 …+
5 …+*The following are the (amazing) responses gathered so far:*
6 …+
7 …+[@elavoie](https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25aU6oBvROv8nGxwjjmzjsrWxJN2wHWsEnWdlWbICaBvU%3D.sha256):
8 …+
9 …+The future is solar.
10 …+The future is recycled.
11 …+The future is collaborative.
12 …+The future is abundant.
13 …+The future has airships (gotta have airships).
14 …+The future doesn't care about borders or the myth of private property.
15 …+The future shares.
16 …+The future's energy is focused towards those in need.
17 …+The future is tantalizing.
18 …+
19 …+[@nanomonkey](https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25XClrf3Qa7wHYgBfQ5%2FuxsK9JUAb7GjLvmk7a94vURnk%3D.sha256)
20 …+
21 …+The future is nomadic.
22 …+The future gives back.
23 …+The future is not wasteful.
24 …+The future needs and supports art.
25 …+The future cherishes storytelling.
26 …+The future is a loving family.
27 …+The future is sustainable.
28 …+The future is communal.
29 …+The future does not seek violence.
30 …+The future is for givers.
31 …+The future is for lovers.
32 …+The future cares about its future.
33 …+
34 …+[@mikey](https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25cf0FwOxVaNo9%2FXenDB0yG5sH%2F13fRPpWN%2FDxjM64WUo%3D.sha256)
35 …+
36 …+The future works together
37 …+The future is modular and open.
38 …+The future is assisted by technology.
39 …+The future is a gardener.
40 …+The future is homemade and upgradable.
41 …+The future can be automated, data-driven, and organic.
42 …+The future has helperbots.
43 …+The future is collaborative.
44 …+The future works to improve the environment.
45 …+The future's tech supports, and is supported by, nature.
46 …+The future is variations on a barn raise.
47 …+The future is physical.
48 …+The future shares to those in need.
49 …+The future gives when you're in need.
50 …+The future is decentralized.
51 …+The future is technical.
52 …+The future is sunny.
53 …+
54 …+[@tim](https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25KjAsnWCPLexj3qt61adtViKf4BA%2FOwtBldXrSLIPmes%3D.sha256)
55 …+
56 …+The future is inclusive.
57 …+The future is diverse.
58 …+The future does not oppress.
59 …+The future freely shares its information.
60 …+The future dissolves ignorance.
61 …+The future does not profit from weakness.
62 …+The future see advertisement as a pollution.
63 …+The future is for helpers.
64 …+The future is conscious of its impact.
65 …+The future makes sure living is not a struggle for anyone.
66 …+The future wants you to follow your dream.
67 …+The future respects the planet it lives in.
68 …+The future is for the earth and the stars.

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