SIsimonpure·Dec 31, 2019Submission
The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt
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ssb-server
JavaScript2015–2021
ssbc / ssb-server
ssb-server
The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt - a distributed social network
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The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt - a distributed social network
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Observed mentions: 2015-10-17 20:13:14 UTC to 2021-01-10 22:26:43 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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3 sourcesElsewhere on Github, you tell people who want to integrate your ads specifically to include it as a regular and not a devDependency in order to cause the ad to be shown to users who transitively depend on it.
https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/pull/685
"@mixmix, thanks for the support! It means a lot to me and I hope that having others join in will help shift the discussion on this topic, even if (like you said) we don't like sponsor messages as the ultimate funding model here.
Btw, I think you'll want to make this a dependency if you intend for end users to see the sponsor message. Otherwise, it will only be run for folks who are developing on ssb-server."
In Standard JS: npm install fundingThe issue with federated services is that they operate from the assumption that everyone has an anarchist sysadmin in their friend group who is going to help everyone run the federated infrastructure.
I’ll use SSB as an example. If you install the software and make an identity, you’ll soon find that you have to sign up with something called a “pub server” to actually get any of your friend’s updates.
Where do you find such a pub server? There’s a wiki: https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/Pub-Servers. The author of the wiki has found that it is necessary to admonish people not to just pick the first pub server on the list, since there isn’t really any criteria by which to choose them. If there was a sudden influx of more than a few hundred new users, it would cause utter chaos on this list. Someone would need to spend a lot of money on
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