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?
Something without official moderation will be effectively moderated by a plurality: whatever single largest active bloc in a community will control it.
This is an intriguing idea, thanks for posting about it. It may end up functioning in ways we can't predict, and that should be interesting.
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