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.
I have just timed and 60 seconds wait time is atrocious for 8 text posts.
IPFS is nice but it doesn't make sense for things that are under few of mb
IPFS has been breaking for a few years, it's just slowly degrading, trying to staple something like this on top of it will just drag the DHT to a standstill.