Plebbit

Plebbit is a decentralized social networking protocol allowing users to create and own communities with complete autonomy. The platform uses a serverless and adminless architecture, ensuring users have full control over their data and communities. Plebbit leverages the PLEB token for community engagement, including upvoting, downvoting, DAO proposals, tipping, and awards. Content distribution is facilitated by IPFS, enabling users to act as full nodes, even with minimal resource usage, ensuring scalable participation without typical server constraints.

Unlike federated social media platforms, Plebbit enables absolute free speech through a pure peer-to-peer architecture with no intermediaries. Users maintain full ownership of their data, eliminating the possibility of censorship through centralized instances or relays. Communities on Plebbit operate independently, allowing owners to establish their own moderation rules while ensuring direct access based on community addresses, enhancing user freedom and control.

Plebbit offers scalability and lower resource demands compared to traditional blockchain-based social media. Users can function as full nodes using approximately 2GB of RAM, made possible by IPFS-based content distribution. This allows seamless integration and interaction with millions of users without the heavy resource overhead typical of blockchain systems. Plebbit focuses on text-only content for more efficient data handling and network functionality.

The PLEB token is integral to Plebbit's ecosystem, facilitating community engagement activities such as upvoting and downvoting content to influence its visibility in app homepages. PLEB tokens are also essential for submitting DAO proposals and executing tipping and awards within the community. They provide additional perks and incentivize user participation, enhancing the decentralized and self-regulated nature of the platform's communities.

To begin using Plebbit, visit plebbit.com to access different client interfaces such as Seedit, designed with a Reddit UI, Plebchan with a 4chan UI, and Plebones for a basic experience. These interfaces allow users to interact with Plebbit using familiar layouts, enhancing ease of use. Users can explore creating and managing communities, employing the PLEB token for various functions, all while benefiting from decentralized community ownership and free speech.

In Plebbit, moderation is decentralized, with each community owner setting their own rules and challenges for users, such as CAPTCHAs to combat spam. Unlike centralized platforms, there are no global administrators, allowing community owners to tailor moderation to their specific needs and user base. This model supports user autonomy and ensures that content moderation aligns with the decentralized ethos of the platform, promoting a diverse range of community standards.