this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024

239 points (84.8% liked)

Technology

68496 readers

4034 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

239

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

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

120 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

(page 2) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So what is it now, P2P or IPFS?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

People here might be interested by my related side-project, a distributed and blockchain-less search engine for IPFS. Note that the demo server is down right now

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Get out of here with the crypto nonsense, we dont need more tech bro spaces for people to talk about AI automation and why the grind is more important than workers rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what? No crypto / ai is mentioned here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

ENS domains ?

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I din't see any benefit over our existing decentralized options. Neat idea though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (11 children)

The downside is big instances decide which content to show their users. If lemmy.world defederates some instance that's content I would never know existed.

load more comments (11 replies)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Sounds promising except the fact that IPFS runs like hot garbage.

I'm running my own IPFS stuff and unless I explicitly add my servers as peers I get about a 1 in 50 chance of finding something I pin somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Interesting project

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From what I've gathered, this appears to be an unusably slow 4chan for crypto bros.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I didn't see the word "blockchain" anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"ENS domain"

IPFS is also strongly related to several blockchain stuff (not a blockchain itself though)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

right in the home page I spotted a link to a so-called plebbit token.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There is indeed a token. Probably an illegal security in the US

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nifty project. Definitely I could see this being useful for discussing things that would traditionally be censored on other more centralized or semi-decentralized platforms (piracy, anti-authoritarian discussions in an oppressive country, etc).

I gave it a try and the loading times are atrocious, though. I suppose that's an unfortunate problem with running decentralized.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Definitely I could see this being useful for discussing things that would traditionally be censored on other more centralized or semi-decentralized platforms (piracy, anti-authoritarian discussions in an oppressive country, etc).

IPFS by default isn't set up to work around censorship or anything of the sort. Protocol Labs (creator/maintainer of IPFS and Filecoin) have always honored copyright takedowns, etc. on their own infrastructure and have done a fair amount of work on content blocking within the default IPFS clients and such.

e.g. https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-content-blocking-for-the-ipfs-stack

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

Can we get a link ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

load more comments