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
Lemmy has moderators and admins which remove CSAM. Plebbit was intentionally built in such a way that no one can remove anything. Extensive discussion of this at the OP’s original post https://lemmy.world/post/23704373. Ctrl-F for “censorship”
Kinda missing the point, the fact it got posted at all on lemmy necessarily means it was potentially federated and hosted on various servers, hence opening them up to legal troubles even if moderation is done.
From my non-lawyer understanding from what I’ve gathered online, THAT is the legal issue, as opposed to unintentionally hosting links, what actually matters legally is where the content is hosted.
They have a concept of moderators, which are chosen by community owners and have the power to remove content within the communities they moderate.
At least that’s what the whitepaper says, I don’t know what the actual implementation does.