Talks

Talks

A collection of videos and public presentations about Scuttlebutt.

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Secure Scuttlebutt: Peer-to-peer collaboration and community infrastructure

Charles Lehner @ LibrePlanet 2020

An introduction to SSB, the protocol, network, applications, values, community, and culture.

The Localized but Distributed Social Network

2019

We’re joined by Dominic Tarr, a sailor, and the Founder of Secure Scuttlebutt. This curiously named project has a fascinating approach to creating a truly distributed social network.

Scuttlebutt and a Decentralized Future

2018

Scuttlebutt can be transformative for society, decentralizing and enabling local community development. Perfect for environments which require offline workability.

Reinvent the Social Web
André Staltz @ FullStackFest

2018

The times we live in have made it necessary to disrupt mainstream social networks. In this talk, Andre will present Scuttlebutt, from the Node.js hacker community. With fully offline browsing, new types of interactions, cryptographic authenticity, and data ownership, several opportunities for innovation are unlocked.

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The internet in 2030

André Staltz @ Mixit 19

There are even more difficulties approaching: climate crisis, crowd social engineering, and the next impending economic crisis, all of which are interconnected. One promising approach can benefit the environment, the economy, humanity, and the internet: décroissance.

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A Tour of the Scuttlebutt ecosystem

DWeb Summit 2018

Mikey Williams, aka dinosaur, is sort of the Scuttlebutt librarian, and gives us a quick tour.

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Anders (arj) @ Bornhack 2019

A talk given at Bornhack about anarchitecture. Several network architectures are explored and contrasted in relation to power, including centralized, federated and distributed.
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What is the meaning of "decentralization"?

Dweb Summit August 1 2018

Taken literally, "decentralization" just means "not centralized", but what are the different ways something can be not centralized? Are there different types or flavors of decentralization that can be meaningfully distinguished?

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It's time to build our own Internet

TEDxGeneva 2018

Smartphones are not to be blamed. The infrastructure of the Internet, often hidden from our sight, provided the technological foundational for the problems we are seeing today. It is possible to build an alternative Internet, that make a new foundation for freedom in the digital era.
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Anders (arj) @ Techfestival 2018

A talk given at the Algorithmic Sovereignty summit during Techfestival in Copenhagen. The talk touches on how Scuttlebutt can be used to regain some sovereignty over how data is shared and bring transparancy to the algorithms that runs on the data.
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O fim da Internet

BrazilJS Conf 2017

Nenhuma tecnologia desaparece da noite pro dia. Assim como o telefone fixo e o Flash, tecnologias sofrem uma gradual redução de uso que pode durar anos ou décadas até desaparecerem completamente. Os primeiros sinais do fim da internet original, aberta e decentralizada, já estão surgindo. Nesta palestra você vai descobrir quais são esses sinais, o que vai acontecer nos próximos anos, e como uma alternativa à internet está sendo criada, usando apenas JavaScript.

Data Terra Nemo - Dominic Tarr

2015

Date Terra Nemo | Berlin

Decentralized Databases, and the End of the Web Host

Paul Frazee @ JS.LA April 2015

How do we synchronize user devices without using servers or central coordination? Join us for a discussion of content-addressing, secure data structures, the web of trust, and apps-development in a post-host Web.

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Secure Database Games

Dominic Tarr @ nodeconf.eu

2014

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Mad Science Architectures

Dominic Tarr @ Realtime Conference

2013

The puzzle pieces of secure-scuttlebutt are being assembled.

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