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Peer-to-peer serverless decentralized social media protocol built on The IPFS (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If it is selfhosted, and text only, why use IPFS?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Text only?

Wait till people start making browser plugins for base64 images.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Links have a character count limit, you can't link to a base64 image on plebbit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You wouldn't need to link base64. Base64 is just ASCII text that would go into the comment. But you can tell a browser or extension that it's an image and have it decided accordingly. You can see examples of this in the .mht files ie/Firefox makes.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol to the cookie notice on plebbit.com

Sounds interesting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

plebbit.com is just a landing page made by a member of the community, to explain the project. To use plebbit, you can check out its clients, like Seedit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we get a link ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://seedit.app is a fully decentralized client for the Plebbit protocol, using a old.reddit UI.

You can also try a demo of a much faster version of Seedit, it works via public RPC: https://plebbit.mooo.com/seedit/#/hot (warning: you're using someone else's full node to browse fully P2P, so if you create a community it's in their node, it's not yours). This version showcases how you can create a community even on mobile device, running a full node remotely. But we have to build user auth for this, it's in our roadmap.

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