`post` message

Post messages are text-based messages intended for a public or private audience. They are what you normally see on feeds from social networks and make most of the meaningful interaction in Secure Scuttlebutt at the moment.

What does it look like?

{
  "key": "%gZIjLirxZKxCMmcsoud/bC0pL68UeB+Yuz+4re67TNk=.sha256",
  "value": {
    "previous": "%X8PLQuBhdUA+WF5VANRfG5iAKMNAeBXxlAtd9SKDAtM=.sha256",
    "sequence": 251,
    "author": "@qv10rF4IsmxRZb7g5ekJ33EakYBpdrmV/vtP1ij5BS4=.ed25519",
    "timestamp": 1560279840471,
    "hash": "sha256",
    "content": {
      "type": "post",
      "text": "YES WE CAN! :heart: :smiley_cat:",
      "root": "%Yx6/snCfur1NHd9fov8H359DfqTyncxuh93uZKnLQI8=.sha256",
      "branch": "%X8PLQuBhdUA+WF5VANRfG5iAKMNAeBXxlAtd9SKDAtM=.sha256",
      "channel": "patchfox"
    },
    "signature": "nP2guRVtAJrvJpmcwG/K+mn4JgNANkK19+aiw+Y/Dn6axBBDB3sGfXKq/cXvrzurW1TB1yszzZebDrk3j+UBBA==.sig.ed25519"
  },
  "timestamp": 1560279840471.001,
  "rts": 1560279840471
}

These messages have a lot of fields. Lets go through the most important ones:

text: This is a Markdown-based textual content that is the body of your message. The other users will see a rendered version of this content.
root: In case this message is part of a thread of messages. The root fields points at the topmost message.
branch: If this message is a reply to another message, then branch points at the message this message is replying to.
channel: The channel this message is being posted to. It works much like hashtags but don’t need to be present in the content itself.

There are other optional fields such as:

recps: which holds the recipients for the messages and is used by private messages
mentions: which is used to help link mentioned users, blobs, and other messages.

post message

What does it look like?

`post` message