Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoThere would be names, just no owners of those names. You’d navigate to /c/technology or whatever, there just wouldn’t be anyone who owns or controls that name, it’s just a tag that anyone can post to.
To get the posts for /c/technology, you’d ask your peers, and they’d ask their peers until someone provides that data. Your client would then aggregate all of the responses, filter them through local moderation, and then display the feed.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Then how would you get to the platform? Direct ip?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Connect to a relay (ideally multiple), which connects you directly to peers. From there, peers can directly refer you to other peers. So just like a BitTorrent tracker or peer exchange.
There currently isn’t a web frontend, but once there is, you could select any that you like. You could self host your own portal, or use the one I provide. That portal doesn’t store any data, it just serves the page and facilitates connection to the platform. It’ll be incredibly lightweight, so you could host it on the cheapest VPS available.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Isn’t that effectively the same?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
No. From what I can tell, Plebbit works like this:
If User A ends the service, moderation and signing of comments end, which effectively kills the community.
My proposal works like this:
That’s it. Any moderation happens on the client. I have plans to make moderation largely automatic, so it’s not a pain while still hopefully controlling spam and trolls. Half the network could go down and the data would still largely be intact. In fact, a country could block internet entirely, and you could still sneakernet it in.