Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community
kolorafa@lemmy.world 4 days agoIt 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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
There’s more abuse potential with full anonymity vs persistent pseudonyms
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 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.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’m sorry, but I sincerely doubt you’ve been on 4chan recently.
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L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
No! bUt ThEy HaVe Ur EmAiL!!!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 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.