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by whimful 3065 days ago
If you want to check out the deep end, here's some writing which captures some of the _vibe_ of the community building this sociotechnical space https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
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Mixed feelings about these writings.

All great for the vibes, but _personally_ I'd rather read tutorials on how to get it running easily on an old solar powered raspberry pi, or how to install it on my dad's phone. The introductory video [0] to Scuttlebutt is an excellent example of concise, hands down, brief explanation on why this software is important (vibes + useful). Tutorials and brief explanation change the future better than solarpunk short stories. Rock on!

[0] https://vimeo.com/236358264

The getting started guide [1] is pretty comprehensive, I think. Let me know if there's something you think is missing. There phone version is _very_ alpha still. Installing it on your solar powered raspberry pi is just a matter of downloading the AppImage from the releases page [2].

I'd also note that if you actually have a solar powered raspberry you'll probably fit right in. There are a lot of "solarpunk" people on the network.

[1]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html [2]: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/releases

Yup been on sbb since saltz's article a while ago on HN, proud member of #solarpunk
forgot to mention. There's a post with instructions [1] for setting up scuttlebutt on a Raspberry Pi Pirate box. I'd link you to it on the web but the user has chosen not to have their posts shown on our public gateways, but if you join the network you can just throw this in the search field and you'll see all the details.

[1] %DI98y9SukdIcd0RW5mp9MRc0mxHziGLP/+PNUu59pO8=.sha256

Awesome! I've been using patchwork for some days and was always curious how to navigate to these ssb:// link i see thrown in places. You just throw it in the search field and you'll see all the details! top!
Thanks! As soon as i get it working on my arch laptop i'll try get it running on rpi