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Peer-to-peer serverless decentralized social media protocol built on The IPFS (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

ENS domain are used to name communities.

Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chanw, andhave 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] 3 points 4 months ago

Bad idea.

The closest to a good idea IMHO is NOSTR. By the way, there is a standard for moderated communities for it, I don't know whether anything implements it yet.

In general, not in fact.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm all for decentralized community-based hosting for large media files such as video, but i guess for text/structured databases it wouldn't work due to synchronisation issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can we get a link ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://seedit.app is a fully decentralized client for the Plebbit protocol, using a old.reddit UI.

You can also try a demo of a much faster version of Seedit, it works via public RPC: https://plebbit.mooo.com/seedit/#/hot (warning: you're using someone else's full node to browse fully P2P, so if you create a community it's in their node, it's not yours). This version showcases how you can create a community even on mobile device, running a full node remotely. But we have to build user auth for this, it's in our roadmap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Interesting project

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (12 children)

I din't see any benefit over our existing decentralized options. Neat idea though.

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

Curious, I thought IPFS was completely empty. I have the desktop client and there's just nothing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I used once to download a book that I couldn't find anywhere else. Like 2 years ago. I stumbled onto some kind of "library" where they had stored a lot of books.

I missed the link though.

I mostly remember it because it was how i learned about ipfs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

So what is it now, P2P or IPFS?

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