I’m a retired coder, These days, I mostly scroll around Lemmy to kill time, but something caught my eye recently, a post about this protocol called Plebbit.
Honestly? At first, the name put me off. Sounded like a joke, plebbit word was a sluar used against redditors…But I was curious enough to check it out and I’m glad I did. Plebbit is basically a protocol that combines the structure of Reddit and all other social media with the tech behind torrents. Every sub is its own instance, and everything is peer-to-peer. No central servers, no single point of failure. It’s simple, but it hits at something big : real decentralized social media.
After digging into it (and chatting with the dev a bit : an anonymous dev named Esteban Abaroa)I started thinking… what if Lemmy could run on top of this? No more relying on any one instance just pure P2P. So yeah, I have decided to build a Lemmy client on top of Plebbit.
Still not a fan of the name but the idea is solid. And honestly, I think we might need this more than we realize.
If anyone has name suggestions for the client, I’d love to hear them. I’ll leave the GitHub link here so you can check out the code yourself.
Need your honest opinions, guys.
Stopped reading right there. I can’t take this project seriously. Even the description uses weasel words that focus more on broad concepts rather than technical clarity. I struggle to find a new idea being presented here that actually provides concrete and material benefits over other ways to put power in the hands of users.
To me this looks exactly like an academic project that was done in school and quickly forgotten. It’s great for writing papers, however.
Oh my God I didn’t see what community this was. If this was supposed to be a joke, it was quite the long one. But yeah it’s a joke project it looks like. That’s a fair comparison.
Nah, it’s spam, OP has posted the same question at P.D multiple times across various communities. Dude either somehow doesn’t know forum ettiquite or is a bot.