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Notes on the ideas behind Six Degrees, written from the code. Every example uses the invented sample network that ships with the app.
The Galaxy is a force simulation. The physics lab hands you its controls: what each slider does, the Clusters preset, colour by, find, and a replay of your network by the day you connected that you can save as a video.
Read it: Inside the Galaxy physics lab, and the replay of your network growing →Six Degrees keeps your network in one folder on your own computer. What that means in practice, what the app contacts and when, and the protections that come with running on localhost.
Read it: Local-first: why Six Degrees has no account, no server and no telemetry →How the optional Six Degrees scanner paces itself, the daily and monthly budgets it keeps to, why it stops at the first push-back, and what the risk to your LinkedIn account really is.
Read it: Scanning slowly and safely: pacing, budgets and the honest risk →How Six Degrees ranks everyone two steps away, counts every way in, and finds the people only one of your connections can reach, with the formulas, and the invented sample network as the example.
Read it: Who can introduce you? How Six Degrees ranks your way in →