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 Ssb, or secure-scuttlebutt, is a distributed gossip protocol designed for social sharing. Identities are cryptographic key pairs, feeds are a signed append-only sequence of messages, and nodes use a gossip protocol to disseminate content. Feeds can be thought of as essentially personal blockchains.
 
+Ssb is based on the idea that your social network mirrors your actual communication network, and your network peers mirror your actual peers.
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 Users are distributed across a few different client apps that work on desktop (Patchwork) and mobile (Manyverse, Planetary).
 
 ### Identity