[$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt
Not many people live on sailboats. Things may be better these days, butback in 2014 sailboat dwellers hadto contend with lag-prone,intermittent, low-bandwidth internet connections. Dominic Tarrdecidedto fix the problem of keeping up with his friends by developing a delay-tolerant,fully distributed social-media protocol calledScuttlebutt. Nearly twelveyears later, the protocol has gained a number of users who have their own,non-sailboat-related reasons to prefer a censorship-resistant,offline-first social-media system.