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.
Nostr is not really federated because the servers just send data for you. Nobody calls the internet federated because the switches transfer your data
Actually, a lot of people refer to the internet as federated, because most all of it is very decentralized, and independently managed.
Take IP routes... The BGP table is a giant exercise in federation. Any transit provide can blackhole your traffic, or just refuse to accept the announcements (ie, a lot of places reject North Korean BGP announcements, for example).
DNS is another example of a federated system, a number of countries operate the root servers, who merely hold pointers to where to get answers for a TLD, which in turns just provides answers on who can provide answers for a domain.
You can even create your own TLDs, and use them!
Its a giant, federated system. The apps sitting on top of it are not so much anymore.
How does one create their own TLDs ? Do you have any guides or example videos on it ?
You spin up a root zone for your tld, and you point your machines at it, and whomever else is interested in using your TLD. Or, you pay ~50K to ICANN, and meet some technical requirements (Last I checked, its like 8 zone servers, in 5 different geographical locations, response time maximums, etc).
Alternativley, you can also work with OpenNIC to do this, as they already have a number of OpenNIC resolvers, root zones. For this, your name servers you run need to meet their Tier I requirements.