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ahdinosaur / ssb-pub

ssb-pub

easily host your own Secure ScuttleButt (SSB) pub in a docker container

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What it is

easily host your own Secure ScuttleButt (SSB) pub in a docker container

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Feb 2018	2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Mar 2018	2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2018	2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
May 2018	2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2018	2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2018	2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Sep 2018	2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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staltz·Sep 25, 2018

Some people in the community have generous internet servers (pubs) also giving invites to people, but that can only work up until some point. Here's a way to easily setup a server yourself on DigitalOcean: http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb...

In Manyverse – A social network off the grid

ahdinosaur·Apr 19, 2018

hey, have you tried contacting a private pub? i'm Mikey, owner of `one.butt.nz`, happy to give you an invite if you send me an email! mikey@rootsystems.nz if you want to setup your own pub, i made an automated Digital Ocean installer (also a detailed manual) for a Docker-based pub: http://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub. i'm also working (with funding from #ssbc-grants) on a hosted pub-as-a-service product: http://buttcloud.org.

In Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

staltz·Apr 19, 2018

Public servers were a temporary hack and nowadays most of the community is putting their public servers down. It's not a good idea for scaling, but above all, public servers connect you with strangers, which is basically undesired for a social network with a similar use case as Facebook. There should be a pub server for each real community. I know it's not the most user friendly, but it suffices that one person in a real community of friends is techy enough to set it up, and it's not that hard: http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb... (this tool enables you to install your own server with a few clicks)

In Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

masukomi·Feb 1, 2018

owning your own pub is cool, but most of us don't bother because you really don't need one to use the system. Well, you don't need _your own_. There's active work going on to improve the support for private groups. if you do want to set up a pub i'd recommend ssb-pub. It's trivial to get up and running (but is command line only). easy-ssb-pub provides a web UI that your friends could request invites from but it needs some TLC right now. https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub#readme

In Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt

masukomi·Jan 31, 2018

i would actually recommend ssb-pub [1] over ssb-easy-pub. ssb-pub is private and has no ui. You generate invite codes on the command line. ssb-easy-pub does provide a web UI so that people can request invite codes easily BUT the codebase is in need of some TLC and is difficult to get running easily. ssb-pub is trivial to set up, especially if you use the one-click installer. [1]: https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub#readme

In Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt