Working on Plebbit.com - A decentralized P2P social media protocol
You can do all the things you mentioned. If you’re a user you can opt to block communities from showing on your feed, although eventually we’re gonna have tags so people can mark SFW, NSFW and political, etc so devs can make clients that filters based on that.
Also if you’re a community owner you can ban people from your sub, you’re in full control of your community.
Yes that’s a problem on the web (working on it atm), but desktop apps should be much faster since it’s pure p2p. Try out Seedit, https://github.com/plebbit/seedit
Yes we had a lot of spam a few months ago but we cleaned it up by adding additional challenges and a white list for the time being till we get to MVP stage
what’s wrong with it
you specifically mentioned Bitcoin I did not, I believe that was OP
included cryptocurrency integration Only for things we believe web3 does better; such as name systems, uncensorable financial transaction
The default limit on comments size is 40kb, and each subplebbit (community) can configure that to be even lower. Hardly doubt people will find a way to embed 40kb images
I don’t want to have to spend time strictly moderating my own feed
You can choose to filter those out, for example Seedit by default filters out NSFW content. Eventually we’re gonna have labeling services, similar to Bluesky where you can subscribe to someone’s else labels of spam/nsfw/etc.
because if my client happens to cache anything illegal
Plebbit is text-only protocol, also it is end-to-end encrypted. Also you could set your own node to never seed anybody else’s content.
The mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain also provokes quite a negative feeling, it’s basically just a haven for scams and useless things, and any kind of integration with it I do not want to be involved with.
We’re not a crypto project, we do have integrations with crypto, like blockchain name systems but that’s a good thing because they’re more censorship resistant than traditional DNS
Some things, in my most humble opinion, should be censored such as hate speech and overt racism
You can choose to filter those out, for example Seedit by default filters out NSFW content. Plebbit is not pure chaos, it’s a p2p protocol that allows communities and users to connect if they really wish to with no intermediaries.
Plebbit is text only protocol. Images aren’t hosted anywhere on the protocol.
I agree crypto has a bad rep, which is why we’re not associating with it. Our goal is to replace both web2 and web3 socials with a p2p solution that actually scales to the masses. Using blockchain for some aspects of it might raise some eyebrows, but it’s worth it imo
What do you mean fragmented?
Plebbit is not built on top of blockchains, it’s a pure p2p network akin to Bittorrent. We do have integrations with crypto, like blockchain name systems but that’s a good thing because they’re more censorship resistant than traditional DNS
It’s a terrible analogy, I think of Plebbit as the Bittorrent of social media.
You don’t need the token to post or create your own community or anything like that. Our plans for the token is to be used for tipping (in a decentralized manner, without relaying on payment processors) and voting within Plebbit clients (which is up to the client dev).
serves only to enrich the owners Assuming Plebbit token gets massive appreciation, we now as the community have a lot of funds to spend on developing new clients to replace centralized web2 platforms like:
A project appreciating in value is not a bad thing, it’s not a bad thing when you pay developer teams to push p2p decentralized social media.
Voting power decided by buying power is about the most undemocratic system possible short of autocracy
The token is not forced upon anyone, and even if we start including it in the clients somehow, anybody can fork the clients and remove any token related stuff out of it.
Tokenizing your own project is a great way of supporting development without selling shares to VCs who only care about hyper growth, regardless of the ideals of the project.
Obfuscating the purpose and structure of your organization to either intentionally or unwittingly dodge regulations that would protect your shareholders is not a great look.
Not sure what you mean by that, everything we do is out in the open.
How do you think the token affects the decentralization of the project?
There’s moderation on the community level, each community is moderated by their owners, or the owners can pick people to moderate in their stead.
How so? If you’re running your node it is.
You don’t need to develop a project for 3 years to rugpull it. Rug pulls are low effort
The founder funded this with more than half a million of his own money to build it, if he just wanted to pump and dump a token there are easier ways
It’s a social network for the plebs instead of corporate overlords. Sounds good to me