Plebbit
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Welcome to Plebbit, a decentralised, peer-to-peer Social Media platform.

I’ll be honest, I really believed in Plebbit.

The idea of a truly decentralized, peer-to-peer social platform felt like something the internet desperately needed. A space beyond centralized servers, censorship, and platform overlords. Something that wasn’t just “Reddit, but a real shift in how we interact online.

Plebbit pitched that dream. They talked about p2p everything : hosting, moderation, identity. They made it sound like the future was finally within reach. And I wanted to believe.

But over time… it became clear. It was all talk. All hype. All roadmap, no road.

Constant delays with vague excuses.

Overpromising, under delivering at every stage.

“Community governance” that never materialized beyond buzzwords.

A dev team that slowly drifted into silence while the protocol rotted. I kept checking in, hoping something had changed. That maybe I’d been too impatient. But no. It wasn’t just slow, it was never real to begin with.

So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    5 minutes ago

    I mean, twitter sucked when it first launched, too. Doesn’t mean it won’t get better.

    Not sure why everyone is so hellbent on FOSS software to be in its most usable and polished state on launch but will buy prereleased and/or beta games and put in 10,000 hours into half finished games without batting an eye. The double standard for FOSS developers is insane to me.

  • LifeSeeker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 hours ago

    IMO Plebbit should reach MVP status by summer (p2p in browser/fix of speed and challenge bugs, sms auth service). Shortly after plebbit will also have a mobile app in app stores (by eoy). Also the indexer/archiver (search posts and subs in apps and google, SEO) sometime by end of summer.

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day

    I thought we had Usenet since the 1970s.

    • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      Usenet is federated (which is a type of decentralization), and I think OP means peer-to-peer (fully distributed).

      • Rinse - Plebbit Dev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Federated has many of the pitfalls of emails like a few providers holding most of the network captive, we believe a full p2p design similar to BitTorrent is the best way forward for full sovereignty of communication.

  • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    The closest I’ve seen to true decetralisation is nostr, all other protocols either died or were just concepts. Activitypub is a good middle ground between true decentralisation and centralised services.