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?
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.
i don’t want things to be censorship resistant. if i host my own instance and some asshole spams it with illegal porn, i want to be able to remove that shit.
It’s a text based. No one can spam images
it specifically talks about image boards, and that posts are stored on ipfs, and that admins can’t delete stuff, only hide it from new users. linking to images on ipfs is definitely possible in that case, and those will be up as long as the spammer seeds them.
Admins of communities can delete stuff. The doc was referring to global admins, there are no global admins on Plebbit.
also Plebbit nodes don’t store images, we only store links to images hosted somewhere else.
delete, or hide? because if images are hosted on ipfs they’ll be up as long as someone wants them to be, and in a content-addressable network you’ll just be playing whack-a-mole with people linking illegal stuff.
There’s a button in the UI to purge comment from your community as a mod. What will happen is:
- The comment will be removed from your node
- The comment will be removed from your community pages (people who load your community won’t see it)
because if images are hosted on ipfs
Plebbit is text-only protocol, all images in the clients are links to image hosting websites.
i get that part, and i appreciate that you devs are here answering questions. i just don’t understand how that will work if people who have already seen the content still have it cached and can help seed it. or am i understanding that wrong?
There will be no way for new people to discover the purged content through the community itself.
Now, if you had the CID of a purged content and there are people seeding it to you, then yes Plebbit functions like any P2P network in which anyone can fetch a content that’s seeded by somebody
if you can post text, you can post base64-encoded data, incl. images
Biggest text you can embed is 30kb, and that is configurable by communities and they can choose to lower that
Stop spamming this shit. A “censorship resistant” 4chan that runs like ass with some crypto scam embedded is not exactly appealing.
lol… apparently even the hype bots got fed up with plebbit: https://programming.dev/post/30153892
First link you sent is a scam, the token is not part of the protocol atm
The second link is literally to their own web page.
Regardless of whether its part of the “protocol”, it’s part of the project.
How do you think the token affects the decentralization of the project?
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.
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.
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.
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
There’s a first time for everything bo.
Something without official moderation will be effectively moderated by a plurality: whatever single largest active bloc in a community will control it.
This is an intriguing idea, thanks for posting about it. It may end up functioning in ways we can’t predict, and that should be interesting.
There’s moderation though, each community is moderated by their owners, or the owners can pick people to moderate in their stead.
There’s no such thing as global admins though
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
There’s moderation on the community level, each community is moderated by their owners, or the owners can pick people to moderate in their stead.
Then i believe that it has a great potential of working out, it just need enough people aboard
Built on IPFS
true censorship resistance
Last time I checked, IPFS was not censorship resistant.
How so? If you’re running your node it is.
Can you delete or edit your own content?
Yes
