using scuttlebot as a backend for a data api

[ahdinosaur]

to throw some spaghetti at my suggested product angle, i'm curious to see if it's possible and/or practical to use scuttlebot as a backend database, as with holodex [demo] at the moment i'm planning to re-build our data api.

in the interest of practicality, i'm not aiming to achieve the ssb utopia where every agent (person or group) manages their own keys, their own feed, ☀️ and 🌈. rather, there should be a spectrum from the current way apps are deployed (on public servers controlled by a single agent and isolated from other servers' data) to the utopia, so developers can slowly migrate their users without interrupting the existing service.

some terminology:

• agent: a person or a group
• member: an agent who is part of a group
• host: an agent who runs a pub server that manages feeds for its members

notes from a previous self:

• every agent should have complete control of their data and how it is shared. they have to trust their host (either them or a group they are a member of) who actually stores the data to enforce their control.
• i've been thinking about nodes as agents, which includes people or groups (or projects which i think are short-term groups). then, as not every agent wants to host themselves in the network, group agents can host their members. we can achieve federated querying amongst network-of-networks with http://linkeddatafragments.org/.

in our current use case, Enspiral would be a host agent for the people and groups within Enspiral. however, any of these members may be their own host, thus creating a federated mesh of hosts where each host has access to all the data of entire network of agents. for the Holodex implementation, i imagine "being a host" would be running the Holodex app on a public server, where we use scuttlebot as a backend to handle data operations (on each agent's feed), replication (across hosts), and queries (linked data), which we use to export a standard http / websocket api interface.

so, @dominictarr, some documentation on how to use scuttlebot as a backend for a data api would be magical. ✨

[pfrazee]

Hey @ahdinosaur, I'm documenting now! Get with me on IRC about your implementation.

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