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?
you’re probably right that it doesn’t matter for most people, but i’ve seen enough cases where illegal material is smuggled through the cracks of a system that i can absolutely believe that there will be groups committed to seeding and sharing removed content, possibly using a mainstream instance to post drops. then that instance gets implicated.
Plebbit is text only, hard to imagine the kind of illegal material that will be sneaked that way. If anybody want to share illegal material, they’re probably using tor not a pure p2p solution which is easier to trace.
sure there are ways that are harder to track but it happens on every platform. i will concede that i have stretched this past the breaking point though, and that i’m now basically criticizing all social media.