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by userpass 3183 days ago
http://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html >"Unforgeable" means that only the owner of a feed can update that feed, as enforced by digital signing (see Security properties).

https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork >You have to follow somebody to get messages from them, so you won't get spammed.

Doesn't that make it completely pointless because updates are still centralised? It merely shifted trusting a single provider to trusting each user which is not a scalable solution. The value add is so low you might as well just use IPNS and make people subscribe to IPNS addresses.

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But it is scaleable. On scuttlebot you follow people just like you have friends in real life. I also don't need to ask the government permission to talk to that person. That is DEcentralized for you right there.