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Although I understand the purpose of a new user having no data on first use I do not agree with it. Using a platform for the first time can be foreign and it eases the mind of the user if they can see what it would look like day-to-day. Maybe just have some test material and a very obvious button to wipe it clean when they are ready?

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If you follow the instructions in the Getting Started Guide [1] it will not be "an empty town". That would be a pretty crappy getting-started experience.

Just connect to a pub and you'll find tons of content.

I would also recommend AGAINST ever doing `rm -rf ~/.ssb` as one commenter suggested. That will wipe out your keys, and thus your identity, and you'll never be able to post anything as that identity again (unless you backed up your secret file or connected it to another identity (advanced usage)).

[1]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/getting-started.html

good idea, #somebodyshould implement it!

If you're familiar with terminal, you can start the app, connect to a pub, have a play, and when you want to reset _everything_ including your identity, run :

``` rm -rf ~/.ssb ```

(this assumes mac / linux) Next time you start Patchwork a new identity will be made and you'll be starting from fresh

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