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.
it has no central server, database, HTTP endpoint or DNS - it is pure peer to peer. Unlike federated instances, which are regular websites that can get deplatformed at any time,
ENS domain are used to name communities.
Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chan, and have 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.
The code is fully open source on
The first is sufficient. You only need to see someone’s public key once, then you cache it and can authenticate all future signed messages.
I just need to think about potential attack vectors. I think issues can be worked around, but I’ve spent most of my time thinking about how to create something and less about how to protect it from attack.
But yeah, public key crypto w/o a central database is my first choice, blockchain is my second.