Plebbit is a fully peer-to-peer, decentralized alternative to Reddit Built on IPFS that doesn’t rely on centralized servers or federated instances like Lemmy or Mastodon. Instead of traditional infrastructure, .No single point of failure, no global mods with ultimate control, no admin backdoors.
In theory, this should mean true censorship resistance and user ownership of content. Communities (subplebbs) are moderated locally with cryptographic keys, and moderation actions are transparent and accountable. It’s a different model than just “federated social media” this is more like BitTorrent for discussion forums.
Do you think a system like this can scale in practice?
Can it maintain quality discussions without centralized moderation?
Will regular users adopt something this technical?
Is it really more decentralized than alternatives, or just differently centralized?
I have no idea what this will become, but i’m really curious to see, i am all in favor of putting the user more in control but at the same time some level of moderation is always necessary to create a good community
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.
Then i believe that it has a great potential of working out, it just need enough people aboard