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.
Not really, most of the time people post on 4chan without them even though they exist.
And we see how horrible 4chan is…
One of the interfaces copies it, so it’s supposed to be a decentralized 4chan. Usernames are not a core feature of it, and anyone can impersonate you unless you post with a hash of your password. That hash is only barely human readable and many people forget what it is.