Plebbit is a fully peer-to-peer, decentralized alternative to Reddit Built on IPFS that doesn’t rely on centralized servers or federated instances like Lemmy or Mastodon. Instead of traditional infrastructure, .No single point of failure, no global mods with ultimate control, no admin backdoors.

In theory, this should mean true censorship resistance and user ownership of content. Communities (subplebbs) are moderated locally with cryptographic keys, and moderation actions are transparent and accountable. It’s a different model than just “federated social media” this is more like BitTorrent for discussion forums.

Do you think a system like this can scale in practice?

Can it maintain quality discussions without centralized moderation?

Will regular users adopt something this technical?

Is it really more decentralized than alternatives, or just differently centralized?

https://github.com/plebbit/seedit

      • theshoeshiner@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 days ago

        The second link is literally to their own web page.

        Regardless of whether its part of the “protocol”, it’s part of the project.

          • theshoeshiner@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 days ago

            I have no clue. Nor do I think it matters. I’m judging it purely on the fact that they integrated a token into the project that serves only to enrich the owners, but operates under the guise of an investment. It’s dishonest and scammy.

            • Rinse - Plebbit Dev@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 days ago

              You don’t need the token to post or create your own community or anything like that. Our plans for the token is to be used for tipping (in a decentralized manner, without relaying on payment processors) and voting within Plebbit clients (which is up to the client dev).

              serves only to enrich the owners Assuming Plebbit token gets massive appreciation, we now as the community have a lot of funds to spend on developing new clients to replace centralized web2 platforms like:

              • Discord
              • Telegram
              • Meetup
              • Vbulletin
              • Discourse
              • Facebook groups

              A project appreciating in value is not a bad thing, it’s not a bad thing when you pay developer teams to push p2p decentralized social media.

    • LifeSeeker@lemmy.worldOP
      36·
      11 days ago

      The token is optional and can be used for tipping, allowing you to earn some money by posting on Plebbit. However, using the platform is completely free.

      • theshoeshiner@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 days ago

        You don’t need a new token to do any of that. You could do it with one of the thousands of existing ones.

        You do, however, need a new token if you want to rug pull a bunch of random clueless “investors”.

        If I’m a betting man, this entire project is 95% scam and 5% project, and that’s me being generous.

        • Rinse - Plebbit Dev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          11 days ago

          You don’t need to develop a project for 3 years to rugpull it. Rug pulls are low effort

          The founder funded this with more than half a million of his own money to build it, if he just wanted to pump and dump a token there are easier ways

  • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
    61·
    11 days ago

    I have no idea what this will become, but i’m really curious to see, i am all in favor of putting the user more in control but at the same time some level of moderation is always necessary to create a good community

  • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    How are you going to prevent state actors from trying to take down the freedom on the internet by them feeding these systems child porn? If you pay attention to the news, you realize those that want to save the children are those that harm the children. There are a lot of cops that get in trouble for child porn. And then the Israelis, they’re good at blackmailing people and also getting into your computer and setting people up. Which is really just the US Empire, but still. Don’t believe me. Whatever. I might not know everything, but I definitely understand. The left and right paradigm and the tyranny of American imperialism. They will corrupt you, then they will control you. Something to think about kiddos. I’m not trying to be a negative Nancy. I want to see more of this and i want to see you succeed.

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    22·
    11 days ago

    Built on IPFS

    true censorship resistance

    Last time I checked, IPFS was not censorship resistant.