Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoThe ideas sound solid. One of Lemmy’s issue is different instances hosting the same community and frequently posting the same content. But too much centralization leads to lemmy.world admins controlling everything. Still there might be abuse such as people claiming every community name.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, name squatting could be an issue, depending on if they rely on ENS or if it’s merely an option. The whitepaper claims communities are merely a public key someone controls, and the name is supplementary, so you could conceivably have duplicate communities. So in theory, squatting wouldn’t be a major issue, but discovery could be (i.e. if ENS is used for discovery, then it’s de-facto authoritative).
I haven’t looked at the implementation, just the website and whitepaper, so I don’t know the specifics. But in theory it looks to have many of the same problems Lemmy has, with the major difference being reducing hosting costs and some dox protection.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Without some level of beneficial dictatorship all projects are doomed if moderation is required.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t think that’s a given, I just think we haven’t found a good solution yet. I’m working on one such solution, where moderation is personalized to the individual user. I think this should be good enough to hide most of the slop, while outliving any BDFL. It’ll probably fail, but hopefully it helps someone else come up with a better implementation that won’t.