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Please change the name of this project. It sounds very bad..
The only reason I can think of to justify a name change is that both SSB and scuttlebutt are terms used in sailing. Initially I thought it was a single side band radio based chat room system for sailors.
Apologies, @staltz could you expand more? Is this centralized? Or federated, along the lines of Mastodon? Why not do this decentralized? Should be possible. NAB (p2p Reddit) does something similar with GUN via "spaces" that are under a public key, but requires no centralized host/server/etc. should be trivial to do the same in SSB.
1. The bootstrapping servers for DHTs are legitimately centralized and hard-coded servers 2. On a DHT you leak your IP address to many other peers, with rooms you leak your IP address only to the room administrator. (This is supposing without an anonymization layer, which would have some non-negligible overhead) 3. Connecting to DHT peers is not as reliable and consistently functioning as a static IP address, considering all sorts of network situations, specially mobile data plans
That said, I don't have anything against DHTs, and in fact I might improve how Manyverse uses DHTs. I just think it's important that users know the drawbacks of each approach, and then users can choose whichever approach fits their needs best. This is why Manyverse focuses on multiple connectivity modes: LAN, Bluetooth, Pubs, Rooms, DHTs. I think the more of these we have, the more resilient the network will be. So my argument isn't for rooms instead of DHTs, my argument is that adding rooms is good to fill in a gap in choices for connectivity.
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Probably, thanks. Iris (built with Gun) has "degrees of separation" as well. https://iris.to/ I believe SSB does have degrees, but I'm not sure how many.
They like to call the relationships "hops" in SSB. I think Manyverse replicates only 2 hops (the people you follow directly and then the people they follow), but the desktop client replicates 3 hops.
Regarding "degrees of separation". I think it makes sense to have the degrees be
1. "I have met this person in real life, known them for a long time, and can confirm that they are who they say they are".
2. "I only know this person through the app, but we both like and respect each other and are friends"
3. This is either a 1st or 2nd degree relationship of one of my 1st or 2nd degree relationships.
So theoretically 1 and 2 are the same, the difference being you like scanned a physical QR code verifying 1 and know them IRL for example.
That way the degrees can double as a "web of trust" that serves as identity verification.
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Or we can just get over it like git and a number of other things. I tend to be rather conservative in what I utter myself but I will actively defend the right of projects to use uncommon English words as names. In fact I think it is a net positive.
Meanwhile folks defend "GIMP", a confirmed sexual and ablest term, to the death.
If anything, if people actually cared about the disabled they should rejoice that this word is getting a new meaning. I for one didn't know the original meaning of that word until someone line you told me.
Oh, and if we give in on this the battle doesn't stop there, seems "butt" is next in line: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20831167
:)