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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t that effectively the same?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. From what I can tell, Plebbit works like this:

      1. User A generates public and private key, and registers a name with the DNS/ENS service to link the name to the public key
      2. User A controls the list of moderators, which have the power to delete posts and comments granted by the private key
      3. Other users create posts and comments with that public key, and User A later signs them with the private key to make them “official”

      If User A ends the service, moderation and signing of comments end, which effectively kills the community.

      My proposal works like this:

      1. users post to a topic (i.e. community)

      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.

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      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, that might just create some legal issues

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