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they can assign mods as well

The whitelist is used by the communities we run, but anybody can run a community and they can ignore the whitelist. It’s totally opt-in. Also, it’s only temporary till we figure out a good sybil resistant challenge design with great UX

You’re thinking in federation, it’s a p2p network. Every user is equal to each other in terms of posting to each other communities.

If I’m hosting community <x> then yes I can ban you, or assign mods who can ban people

It’s a social network for the plebs instead of corporate overlords. Sounds good to me

You can do all the things you mentioned. If you’re a user you can opt to block communities from showing on your feed, although eventually we’re gonna have tags so people can mark SFW, NSFW and political, etc so devs can make clients that filters based on that.

Also if you’re a community owner you can ban people from your sub, you’re in full control of your community.

Yes that’s a problem on the web (working on it atm), but desktop apps should be much faster since it’s pure p2p. Try out Seedit, https://github.com/plebbit/seedit

The community owner does. Every community owner is in full charge of their community.

You can block and ban people if you’re the community owner, the point is there’s no federated instances that block people arbitrarily. Every community owner is in full charge of their community.

Yes we had a lot of spam a few months ago but we cleaned it up by adding additional challenges and a white list for the time being till we get to MVP stage

what’s wrong with it

You can block and ban people if you’re the community owner though, the point is there’s no federated instances that block people arbitrarily. Every community owner is in full charge of their community.

you specifically mentioned Bitcoin I did not, I believe that was OP

included cryptocurrency integration Only for things we believe web3 does better; such as name systems, uncensorable financial transaction

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

if you want to host a Plebbit server

Did you mean a community (subplebbit) here? Or did you mean running your own client instance, like Seedit?

Use a hosting provider, which is something you want to avoid according to your pitch. Running a community is very cheap on terms of computing resources, it’s on par with running a bittorrent client, you can probably run 50+ communities on a single raspberry pi or a $5 VPS. No need for DNS/TLS, and I suspect many people will opt to host communities themselves.

If you still wanna host it with someone else, you could have the address of the community be a blockchain name system tied to a wallet you own, and then give the hosting provider your database (which contains your IPNS private key). The hosting provider will receive and publish updates on your behalf, but in the case they went rogue, you can update the text records of your domain to point to a new IPNS you fully own.

So even this way, the hosting provider doesn’t really have a lot of power over the community owner.

Serve it from your own personal network under your own IP. Given that you’re worried about censorship from even the DNS system, I imagine this is something you absolutely don’t want to do.

You can use relays/tor/vpn to obfuscate your real ip address. The peers in the network won’t know necessarily that IP address <x> is running these specific communities, just in the same way you don’t know if a random bittorrent seeder is person who originally created the file and uploaded it.

Also plebbit is text only protocol, there are no images hosted on the protocol.

I don’t want to have to spend time strictly moderating my own feed

You can choose to filter those out, for example Seedit by default filters out NSFW content. Eventually we’re gonna have labeling services, similar to Bluesky where you can subscribe to someone’s else labels of spam/nsfw/etc.

because if my client happens to cache anything illegal

Plebbit is text-only protocol, also it is end-to-end encrypted. Also you could set your own node to never seed anybody else’s content.

The mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain also provokes quite a negative feeling, it’s basically just a haven for scams and useless things, and any kind of integration with it I do not want to be involved with.

We’re not a crypto project, we do have integrations with crypto, like blockchain name systems but that’s a good thing because they’re more censorship resistant than traditional DNS

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.

I agree crypto has a bad rep, which is why we’re not associating with it. Our goal is to replace both web2 and web3 socials with a p2p solution that actually scales to the masses. Using blockchain for some aspects of it might raise some eyebrows, but it’s worth it imo

That’s an NFT collection made by an independent artist. It’s not a representative of the project’s ethos