[lurtbancaster]

Admittedly my only exposure to the Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol(SSB) is through manyver.se [1] - a FOSS private(optionally) social media app. And the syncing issue you mention has been one for me too. Sometimes it's even worse - it fails to sync entirely until another app restart. Maybe this is a manyverse issue, maybe a SSB issue. Either way, hitherto at least, it doesn't seem reliable.

If there are alternative ways to have an offline(over Wi-Fi/bluetooth, not internet) social media/messaging app, that works on both Android and ios, please do let me know.

Thanks.

[1] https://www.manyver.se/

[evbogue]

At a certain point in the history of SSB the manlyverse team took over the maintenance of SSB and the apps locking until the end of a sync became the norm. Prior to this there were websocket-based web and Electron apps where you could at least see that progress was being made.

SSB always sank from the first post to the latest. IMO it's better to sync from the latest backwards.