🐹 gester 🐹

p2p chat app built on scuttlebutt

more on scuttlebutt: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

potentially chat with friends on the same network without even being connected to the internet 🙌

this is just a more user friendly ui for scat 🐭

download binaries

here

tips and tricks

• you can press meta+k as a shortcut to start a private chat (idea borrowed from Slack)
• you can join a pub from the Help menu
• you can tab complete names and emoji
• click on a name/id (or search for one) to pull up follow/block options
• from the author view, you can assign a new name to someone by double-clicking their name

install / run from source

$ npm install
$ npm start

what's happening

gester/scat uses a special message type scat_message. this means that if you're using something like Patchwork, your feed won't be all gobbled up by chat messages. And scat won't be all gobbled up by your posts.

but since it's all the same protocol and all the same feeds, all the same people are there. gester/scat uses the ssb-about plugin. if your sbot doesn't have this plugin, you will just see ids... no names.

gester/scat will honor self-identification above a 3rd party's identification of another user, and will honor your identification of another user above their own self-identification. a 3rd party's identification of another user is not honored at all.

license

MIT