@Greg @thcipriani @joeyh i'm on there intermittently - i don't run a pub, but i've thought about setting one up somewhere (at least insofar as i understand how a pub works, which i might not). there's a lot about ssb that hasn't quite gelled in my head yet.

@brennen A Question for you (copy/paste from Freenode):

My local diary (.ssb) is very important, obviously, but,

A) what happens if I lose it (eg harddrive crash) and,

B) what is the relation between my identity and my local .ssb with respect to using multiple computers (eg: a phone client)? (sorry if these questions have incorrect assumptions embedded in them)

@Greg i think your assumptions are probably correct: the key that identifies you lives there, i'm pretty sure, and as of yet there is no especially useful multi-device story (beyond you can move the .ssb to another device).

@Greg it could also be that you're just supposed to hold the identity a little lighter and have multiple keys on multiple devices if that's what you want to do, but i'm not entirely sure what the cultural assumptions are there.

@Greg yeah, but no -- let's just say that ssb does not meet my requirements for software I run on my servers

(neither does mastadon)

@joeyh @Greg i spent a while the other day trying to get git-ssb going, because i think i want what it does pretty badly, and ran into heavy npm tangles.

ssb & its ecosystem are definitely a strong case of: i wish that people would stop doing interesting things in node.

@brennen @Greg @joeyh I want that on a t-shirt.

"I wish people would stop doing interesting things in node"

I'm going to make those t-shirts.

@joeyh sad face

@Greg anyway no need for a server if you can get a globally routable IP address; run a p2p ssb node..

Alright, I'm on #SSB:

@L0XL1TZMA82mZMsVt1yJlIDYjs4psed03iKO6zgUub4=.ed25519

that me ^

(my secret is now securely backed up as well, so this should be me in the future as well)

@Greg afaict there's no multi-device story yet; the issue quickly got bogged down in crazy hypotheticals involving smart contracts: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/issues/484

@Greg curious if that's working for you, since it seems you unfollowed your pub and might not have gotten fully into the network

@joeyh there was confusion on that part (following the pub; there was a second one involved but it didn't work properly, which is what I thought I unfollowed...). Better?

@Greg yeah, your posts are getting out now

@Greg I'd dig up my ID on SSB, but my Thinkpad seems to have developed a habit of randomly crashing when I try to do anything ambitious, like opening Google Maps or Patchwork.

@liw yeah, so far SSB is mostly a novelty thing for me. I love the idea in theory.