I really loved ssb and even ran my own instance at one point but found the reference implementation hard to replicate based on the documentation at the time and

I really loved ssb and even ran my own instance at one point but found the reference implementation hard to replicate based on the documentation at the time and the network itself seemed somewhat unscaleable. As I recall, your client keeps a full record of posts and so after following a modest number of people my local storage grew to several gigabytes. When I was running the server, it needed regular restarting to keep things operational.