I recently came across three separate platforms:
Qortal: https://qortal.org/
ZeroNet: https://zeronet.io/
and
Plebbit: https://plebbit.com/
That all claim to be completely decentralized.
There’s even talk about how Plebbit is more decentralized than the Fediverse, because the Fediverse is based off of instances.
https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/s/0ynXzrD5H6
And I was curious, would such a setup work better for the Fediverse, or is it basically just a huge scam/waste of time and money?
They aren’t scams, they are tech nerds trying to re-invent another wheel. Plebbit looked the strongest to me imho but advertising a 4chan clone as your top site on the chain/torrent network will raise alarm bells with most folks.
The two main problems I see with these approaches:
- Chain-based: lots of cpu and inter-node traffic for what? Guarenteeing you’re seeing the current version of the site? meh
- Torrent-based: quirky, less popular sites will have less peers and you may be waiting forever to see the site.
Not really doing it for me at all to be honest.


