Working on Plebbit.com - A decentralized P2P social media protocol
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.
So every user is their own moderator… which just sounds like a ton of extra work
Once we have the labeling services it will be easy and a single click to use someone’s else labeling.
Also each community moderate however they see fit, as a community owner you’re incentivized to keep their community free of spam and derailing posts etc.
Mastodon where I can pick a server whose moderation practices I agree with, is already decentralized into countless servers and allows the user to spin up their own instance.
P2P is superior to federation in many ways though
Keyword filtration as a moderation technique is woefully ineffective vs trolls who simply find “clever” new ways to harass with intentional misspellings, dogwhistles, etc.
I agree, but it’s not just keywords, it’s community-based labeling services, so you could have 10+ people labeling on a single content-labeling extension. You could also have AI agent sifting through the network and labeling content with minimal human intervention.
Meanwhile, you’re pitching this thing as “uncensorable” which automatically appeals to the worst elements available. Maybe I’m wrong and it’ll be the perfect format for internet discussion, but I’m going to have to see that actually happen before I jump on board.
You can filter your feed by tags/keywords, and eventually we’re gonna have labeling services, similar to Bluesky where you can subscribe to someone’s else blocked keywords.
In centralized social media, there’s only a single entity deciding what’s allowed, with Plebbit that decision is pushed to the edges of the network. So each node can decide what it wants to see, nothing is pushed on the end user.
What do you mean fragmented?
It’s a terrible analogy, I think of Plebbit as the Bittorrent of social media. Plebbit is not built on top of a blockchain, it’s a pure p2p network
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?
Yeah I don’t mind having an account on Bluesky, and will be making one shortly.
Ideally hosting your node should be easier, it doesn’t seem they care about it that much which concerns me
But then who’s hosting my content and till when they’re hosting it?
If somebody does something illegal, it’s up to the government to act on it. Also users of clients can choose to omit certain communities or keywords from their feed. This is a healthier approach than letting a few dudes in Silicon valley telling us what to see/think
Protocol implementation plebbit-js is separated from client like Seedit
Lol pretty sure if we’re funded by these guys we would’ve been way faster with our development. P2P is hard, many pitfalls
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.
There’s moderation though, each community is moderated by their owners, or the owners can pick people to moderate in their stead.
There’s no such thing as global admins though
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
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