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?
The second link is literally to their own web page.
Regardless of whether its part of the “protocol”, it’s part of the project.
How do you think the token affects the decentralization of the project?
I have no clue. Nor do I think it matters. I’m judging it purely on the fact that they integrated a token into the project that serves only to enrich the owners, but operates under the guise of an investment. It’s dishonest and scammy.
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).
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.