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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Isn’t that effectively the same?

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No. From what I can tell, Plebbit works like this:
  
  User A generates public and private key, and registers a name with the DNS/ENS service to link the name to the public key
  
  User A controls the list of moderators, which have the power to delete posts and comments granted by the private key
  
  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:
  
  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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, that might just create some legal issues
    
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    sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    For who?
    
    me? I can’t delete anything even if I wanted to
    
    relay hosts? Most connections are short lived, and any data is end to end encrypted
    
    cache maintainers? They can only delete local copies, so there’s no reason not to comply; they could even actively filter the data they store
    
    individual users? There’s plausible deniability, which should protect the innocent, and local moderation should address the worst of it
    
    The biggest targets are individual users, but as we’ve seen with BitTorrent, that almost never happens. There’s also no profit here, so there are no assets to seize, though I’ll probably accept donations.
    
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