Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community

Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• kolorafa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It sounds like jest plain simple website/forum BUT with specific protocol making it more discoverable/searchable?

  Allowing to post comments anonymously… sound like a bad idea in theong run, but who know, make me eat my words.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Allowing to post comments anonymously… sound like a bad idea in the long run, but who know, make me eat my words.

    How so? Reddit and Lemmy do just that. There’s nothing tying my username to me, and I’m guessing there’s nothing typing yours to you.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think that’s necessarily true. The difference between 4chan and Reddit is pretty small, and abuse certainly happens on both platforms. It’s pretty easy to swap out a pseudonym (I used to do it every 2-3 years on Reddit), so the difference between that and completely anonymous posts is pretty small.

        If you tie accounts to a persistent identity (e.g. Facebook), you have an opportunity to address abuse, but you open yourself up to even more tracking by the service and your government, which I think is worse.

        For me, tying online accounts to actual identity (e.g. government ids) is a no-go for me, so the abuse problem needs to be addressed another way. For lemmy, that’s centralized moderation (per community and instance). For a P2P service, that means users opting-in to moderation (e.g. something like a web of trust), which should prevent them from seeing abuse in the first place since they won’t see untrusted content.

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    • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No! bUt ThEy HaVe Ur EmAiL!!!

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        But they don’t. I have never given my email to Reddit or Lemmy. If I did, I’d use a throwaway email.

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