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

https://github.com/plebbit

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 days ago

      For who?

      • me? I can’t delete anything even if I wanted to
      • relay hosts? Most connections are short lived, and any data is end to end encrypted
      • cache maintainers? They can only delete local copies, so there’s no reason not to comply; they could even actively filter the data they store
      • individual users? There’s plausible deniability, which should protect the innocent, and local moderation should address the worst of it

      The biggest targets are individual users, but as we’ve seen with BitTorrent, that almost never happens. There’s also no profit here, so there are no assets to seize, though I’ll probably accept donations.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 days ago

        I don’t mean crime, no. There’s laws regarding moderation when a platform is big enough. And regarding personal data in a lot of cases

        • @[email protected]English
          1•5 days ago

          Ah, that’s not a thing where I’m from (US). I wonder what that would look like without a central authority. There’s no way to guarantee any particular moderation or ensure deletion of personal data, so I guess their options are to ban it or let it slide.