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title: SSB
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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/>