INinternalfx·Jan 31, 2018
Yes you can.
https://github.com/staltz/easy-ssb-pub
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staltz / easy-ssb-pub
easy-ssb-pub
An easy-to-host server that runs an SSB "Pub"
3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
207GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
An easy-to-host server that runs an SSB "Pub"
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2017-04-06 15:37:56 UTC to 2018-01-31 18:36:17 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesBit of feedback: when you download the desktop application, it prompts for a desired name, image, and description.
It's unclear whether this can be changed later, and I'm not yet sure whether I want to use my real identity or a throwaway.
After creating an account with the default ¿randomly? generated name, I tried to use an invite obtained from http://198.211.122.115/invited which was linked from https://github.com/staltz/easy-ssb-pub.
All I got back was "An error occured (sic) while attempting to redeem invite. could not connect to sbot"
It worked with http://pub.locksmithdon.net/ though I feel a bit odd trusting a "locksmith" I've never heard of to stream lots of data to my harddrive...
It's cool that anyone can host a pub – basically, an instance of FB/Twitter/Gmail, it seems – but things 1) will get expensive for them, and it's uncle
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ar how they'll fund that – and 2) now I have to trust random people on the internet – not only to be nice, but also secure.
As a "random technically aware netizen", I honestly trust fooplesoft more, since they have a multi-billion-dollar reputation to protect. (Not that I trust fooplesoft).
It sounds like that's what the 'pubs' mentioned in the article are for: https://github.com/staltz/easy-ssb-pub
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