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.
From what I've gathered, this appears to be an unusably slow 4chan for crypto bros.
I didn't see the word "blockchain" anywhere.
right in the home page I spotted a link to a so-called plebbit token.
There is indeed a token. Probably an illegal security in the US
Because they didn't want to turn off everybody immediately
"ENS domain"
IPFS is also strongly related to several blockchain stuff (not a blockchain itself though)