HN Hall of Fame Weekly email

Manyverse – A social network off the grid

www.manyver.se Software & code Software projects Web & internet Candidate
Screenshot of www.manyver.se captured 2026-07-20
Page preview · captured 2026-07-20

Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2018–2023
peak thread · 138 comments
391 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-09-21
391 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

HN comment order

Scuttlebutt (the underlying protocol of Manyverse) is the best decentralized social network I've found so far. It takes a much more radical approach than that of federation ala Mastadon, which is just centralization in miniature. Under the hood, scuttlebutt uses multiple independent blockchains, each tied to a single user. The upside of this is that it makes for a great eventually consistent gossip protocol; the downside is that the entire chain needs to be propagated for any of it to…

Does SSB still make it impossible to share a single identity across multiple devices? (I.e. I'd like to log into my identity from my laptop but see that same identity's feed on my phone.) I want to participate, but periodically I check https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/applications/multiple-devices... and it hasn't changed, and for me, having a single device to which the entirety of my identity is tied is a non-starter. Even so, the tech seems interesting, and I hope that limitation goes away one…

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
698

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
255

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-09-25Manyverse – A social network off the gridFirst breakoutstaltz298117
2021-01-11Manyverse – a social network off the gridSami_Lehtinen50
2021-09-21Manyverse – A social network off the gridBest thread · Latest 20+ point returngraderjs391138
2023-01-18Manyverse: An off the grid social network built on the SSB protocolmarcodiego40