2mo ago

What do you honestly think about Plebbit Protocol, and do you see it succeeding in the future?

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

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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.
  
  if you can post text, you can post base64-encoded data, incl. images
Sounds more like a crypto scam...
https://medium.com/@killingbeauty3/how-to-supercharge-your-yields-with-plebbit-a-guide-to-maximizing-your-pleb-yield-rewards-656819bb9bf5
https://plebbit.com/introduction
- 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.
- 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.
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
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
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.
Can you delete or edit your own content?
- Yes
Built on IPFS
true censorship resistance
Last time I checked, IPFS was not censorship resistant.
- in what way can it be censored?
- How so? If you're running your node it is.
that's interesting thanks for posting

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