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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh, that might just create some legal issues

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t mean crime, no. There’s laws regarding moderation when a platform is big enough. And regarding personal data in a lot of cases

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