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.

  • faeempress
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    220 days ago

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

    • @iopq
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      720 days ago

      The downside is big instances decide which content to show their users. If lemmy.world defederates some instance that’s content I would never know existed.

      • @[email protected]
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        320 days ago

        So… sounds like you need a new instance? One that doesn’t defederate from all the content banned by another instance.

        • ZeroOne
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          120 days ago

          The last time I checked FediVerse is rife with Defederation

          • @[email protected]
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            620 days ago

            And thats a good thing! It’s known as a right to free association. You can choose who you hang out with, and who you do NOT hang out with.

            • ZeroOne
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              -319 days ago

              Yeah in other words censorship & echo-chambers When you call yourself a “Platform” you don’t get to “associate”

              • @trxxruraxvr
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                119 days ago

                You can always run your own instance and federate with everyone

                • ZeroOne
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                  19 days ago

                  Oh boy, you have any idea how costly running an instance is ?

                  • @trxxruraxvr
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                    119 days ago

                    I do. It can be pretty cheap if you don’t open it up for other users. Otherwise it can get pricy.

        • @iopq
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          120 days ago

          The point is I don’t control what the admins do