<p><em>Paul Frazee, CC BY-SA 4.0 <ahref="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</em></p>
<p>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 <aclass="internal-link"href="/peer-to-peer">peer-to-peer</a> (p2p) <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol">gossip protocol</a>.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>The name, Scuttlebutt, came from sea-slang for gossip. Basically, like a watercooler on a ship, where sailors and pirates go have a yarn.</p>
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