Plebbit is a selfhosted, opensource, nonprofit social media protocol, this project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people.

Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

ENS domain are used to name communities.

Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chanw, andhave a Blog. Plebbit intend to have an app, internet archive, wiki and twitter and Lemmy. Choice is important. The backend/communities are shared across clients.

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      Well if you see ActivityPub as the standard way of using decentralized social media…

      • akkajdh999@programming.devEnglish
        47·
        1 year ago

        Not in the context of that xkcd (And the comic itself is stupid, should we have not invented Unicode because it’s yet another standard?? Should we not innovate?) Also ActivityPub is not serverless/peer-to-peer and the OP even says themselves it’s not a lemmy competitor!!