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you specifically mentioned Bitcoin I did not, I believe that was OP

included cryptocurrency integration Only for things we believe web3 does better; such as name systems, uncensorable financial transaction

The default limit on comments size is 40kb, and each subplebbit (community) can configure that to be even lower. Hardly doubt people will find a way to embed 40kb images

if you want to host a Plebbit server

Did you mean a community (subplebbit) here? Or did you mean running your own client instance, like Seedit?

Use a hosting provider, which is something you want to avoid according to your pitch. Running a community is very cheap on terms of computing resources, it's on par with running a bittorrent client, you can probably run 50+ communities on a single raspberry pi or a $5 VPS. No need for DNS/TLS, and I suspect many people will opt to host communities themselves.

If you still wanna host it with someone else, you could have the address of the community be a blockchain name system tied to a wallet you own, and then give the hosting provider your database (which contains your IPNS private key). The hosting provider will receive and publish updates on your behalf, but in the case they went rogue, you can update the text records of your domain to point to a new IPNS you fully own.

So even this way, the hosting provider doesn't really have a lot of power over the community owner.

Serve it from your own personal network under your own IP. Given that you’re worried about censorship from even the DNS system, I imagine this is something you absolutely don’t want to do.

You can use relays/tor/vpn to obfuscate your real ip address. The peers in the network won't know necessarily that IP address is running these specific communities, just in the same way you don't know if a random bittorrent seeder is person who originally created the file and uploaded it.

Also plebbit is text only protocol, there are no images hosted on the protocol.

I don’t want to have to spend time strictly moderating my own feed

You can choose to filter those out, for example Seedit by default filters out NSFW content. Eventually we’re gonna have labeling services, similar to Bluesky where you can subscribe to someone’s else labels of spam/nsfw/etc.

because if my client happens to cache anything illegal

Plebbit is text-only protocol, also it is end-to-end encrypted. Also you could set your own node to never seed anybody else's content.

The mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain also provokes quite a negative feeling, it’s basically just a haven for scams and useless things, and any kind of integration with it I do not want to be involved with.

We're not a crypto project, we do have integrations with crypto, like blockchain name systems but that’s a good thing because they’re more censorship resistant than traditional DNS

Some things, in my most humble opinion, should be censored such as hate speech and overt racism

You can choose to filter those out, for example Seedit by default filters out NSFW content. Plebbit is not pure chaos, it's a p2p protocol that allows communities and users to connect if they really wish to with no intermediaries.

Plebbit is text only protocol. Images aren't hosted anywhere on the protocol.

I agree crypto has a bad rep, which is why we're not associating with it. Our goal is to replace both web2 and web3 socials with a p2p solution that actually scales to the masses. Using blockchain for some aspects of it might raise some eyebrows, but it's worth it imo

That's an NFT collection made by an independent artist. It's not a representative of the project's ethos

So every user is their own moderator… which just sounds like a ton of extra work

Once we have the labeling services it will be easy and a single click to use someone's else labeling.

Also each community moderate however they see fit, as a community owner you're incentivized to keep their community free of spam and derailing posts etc.

Mastodon where I can pick a server whose moderation practices I agree with, is already decentralized into countless servers and allows the user to spin up their own instance.

P2P is superior to federation in many ways though

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Keyword filtration as a moderation technique is woefully ineffective vs trolls who simply find “clever” new ways to harass with intentional misspellings, dogwhistles, etc.

I agree, but it's not just keywords, it's community-based labeling services, so you could have 10+ people labeling on a single content-labeling extension. You could also have AI agent sifting through the network and labeling content with minimal human intervention.

Meanwhile, you’re pitching this thing as “uncensorable” which automatically appeals to the worst elements available. Maybe I’m wrong and it’ll be the perfect format for internet discussion, but I’m going to have to see that actually happen before I jump on board.

Plebbit is text-only, images are not hosted on the protocol anywhere. Although you can embed a link to an image within your comments or posts. Eventually we will think of a design for p2p image hosting but it's not high priority right now, also it could be abused easily.

Locate bob given a name or some other ID At the moment we use key-value trackers similar to bittorrent trackers, Bob in this sceneario would post their content CID (content identifier, similar to hash) with addresses they can be reached through (quic, webtransport, websocket, https, etc).

If we assume Bob in this is a community with human name like cats, then the backend of Plebbit will resolve the text records of the domain to find its IPNS address, which then can be queries from trackers to find Bob, or anyone else who has the content of Bob's community.

Verify that it is indeed Bob (and not someone pretending to be Bob)

Plebbit uses IPFS for its backend, which is based on content-addressing. You always get what you ask for.

Prove to Bob that I am indeed who I say I am Each comment/vote/edit published by users to communities is signed with ed25519 keys.

Send that cat picture without anyone in the middle snooping on it

Depending how you connected to Bob, if you connect over a websocket or any encrypted protocol it will encrypted and nobody can snoop on you.