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Plebbit is a selfhosted, opensource, nonprofit social media protocol, this project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people.

Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

it has no central server, database, HTTP endpoint or DNS - it is pure peer to peer. Unlike federated instances, which are regular websites that can get deplatformed at any time,

ENS domain are used to name communities.

Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chan, and have a Blog. Plebbit intend to have an app, internet archive, wiki and twitter and Lemmy. Choice is important. The backend/communities are shared across clients.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (16 children)

According to OP’s previous comments the dev of this has spent 600k of their own money on this. If that claim is legitimate then feel free to draw your own conclusions about why someone with 600k to burn would spend it on an NFT crypto reddit, but without images.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They're probably calculation their own labor, which they mark as a negative.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, I lost interest at 'blockchain'.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (12 children)

... Ain't that just a website?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

How does removing images change anything? Any file can be transmitted by text, as we used to do with e-mail, and you don't need to use images to make illegal or just intentionally offensive content.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Something tells me the "I don't host CSAM I just host posts that embed/link to CSAM (from other hosts)" argument won't hold up in court.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Happy cake day!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Doesn't it tho? That was part of the issue with Lemmy federating suspected csam content as the actual content ended up on their servers.

Edit:Should probably be clear, I mean legally, not ethically or morally lmao.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (43 children)

Hold up plebs (hah), this alternative to dns (domain name system) called ens is actually more centralized.

The pros listed here over federation: no central http endpoint, database or dns are a lie. The whole point of having federated instances is that they're not a central thing. Yes, individual instances can be knocked out. It'll be just the same for plebbit except no one can moderate trolls creating scummy or phishing domain names.

Whomever came up with the idea to charge people gas fees is a billionaire now. Ignoring that bit, this blockchain based domain system looks cool, but an unmoderatable free-for-all is an absolutely terrible idea

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

No matter what choice you make, Lemmy or Plebbit or something else, it's clear that decentralized/federated services are the real future. The return of the torrent swarms but forum swarms instead.

At some point something clicked with everyone, and they realized "the cloud" is someone else's computer, someone else's property. We all collectively realized you never feel truly free when you're on someone else's property, you're always playing by their rules. At least with decentralization the levels of control are distributed so you have less of one person wresting control from anyone else.

It's a bit like growing your own garden. You do it because you know what you're putting into your garden and getting out of it. If you choose to use pesticides, that's your choice, and no one else's. When you choose how to run your own self-hosted services, it becomes your choice what comes and goes from your network.

I'm glad to be part of the self-hosting future here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Sometimes the cloud is your own computer

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

From the whitepaper it seems like you cannot comment at all? Or each comment is a post also, so you need a server, you need to host it to be able to reply? I don't see a mention how an upvote/downvote system could work.

How this is even similar to reddit? From what I could find it's much like a topic based microblogging, and it's a very one way communication. As it's similar to IPFS and torrent, which are also very one way communication. Seems like an interesting idea, but I don't see why it was compared to reddit.

Personal opinion, IPFS clones are reinvented about every year, and because they sound very good on paper, but noone could figure out a legit usecase - maybe except piracy - they fail after a while. Maybe if we would become an actual InterPlanetary species with colonies on Mars they could be useful, but until I don't really see a point trying it again and again and again...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (11 children)

So in what way is that better than Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Does it need to be better? Can people just share things they find interesting or that they made?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I think it's the same in most aspects, just less developed. However, it looks like the devs lie about the benefits and use a less secure alternative to dns.

It's garbage with a funny name

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