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title: SSB
status: 🌱
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![Hermies](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/227587/114308935-73597c80-9ab3-11eb-8830-eb8ecb250eb5.png){:.w-60}  

_Paul Frazee, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons_

Scuttlebutt is a decentralised secure gossip platform.

Like other social platforms, you can send messages to your friends and share posts onto a feed. The cool thing is that the underlying technology here means that messages are passed directly between friends via a [[peer-to-peer]] (p2p) [gossip protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol).

As a decentralized social network, Scuttlebutt passes the data from friend to friend, without any central server. The data is localised and distributed so it also happens to work [[offline]]!

The name, Scuttlebutt, came from sea-slang for gossip. Basically, like a watercooler on a ship, where sailors and pirates go have a yarn.

<https://scuttlebutt.nz/>
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			`title: SSB`
updated notes 2021-04-25 00:47:03 +00:00			`status: 🌱`
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ssb 2021-04-11 14:56:26 +00:00			`![Hermies](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/227587/114308935-73597c80-9ab3-11eb-8830-eb8ecb250eb5.png){:.w-60}`

Update ssb.md 2021-04-11 14:52:21 +00:00			`_Paul Frazee, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons_`

notes 2021-04-11 14:43:28 +00:00			`Scuttlebutt is a decentralised secure gossip platform.`

			`Like other social platforms, you can send messages to your friends and share posts onto a feed. The cool thing is that the underlying technology here means that messages are passed directly between friends via a [[peer-to-peer]] (p2p) [gossip protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol).`

adding offline note 2021-05-17 23:49:04 +00:00			`As a decentralized social network, Scuttlebutt passes the data from friend to friend, without any central server. The data is localised and distributed so it also happens to work [[offline]]!`
notes 2021-04-11 14:43:28 +00:00
			`The name, Scuttlebutt, came from sea-slang for gossip. Basically, like a watercooler on a ship, where sailors and pirates go have a yarn.`

Update ssb.md 2021-04-11 14:52:21 +00:00			`<https://scuttlebutt.nz/>`