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.
it has no central server, database, HTTP endpoint or DNS - it is pure peer to peer. Unlike federated instances, which are regular websites that can get deplatformed at any time,
ENS domain are used to name communities.
Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chan, and have 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.
The code is fully open source on
yeah...the fediverse is Reddit 2.0
Lemmy has been getting a little more....fascisty lately. each community has basically been infiltrated by power-tripping mods from Reddit that honestly have no business being mods.
it's good to have things different than Reddit and Lemmy.
"Lemmy" is actually not a platform like Reddit, it's software and the network of instances running that software is decentralized (Lemmy uses the ActivityPub protocol) meaning each instance is operated by a different person (or group). There are also other similar softwares like Piefed and mBin that work pretty well with Lemmy. That is all to say that if an Admin or Mod is "getting fascisty" you can block that instance, join another, or even create your own. That's the beauty of ActivityPub!
Do you have examples? I follow !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com quite closely, and except the usual Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world power tripping the vast majority of communities seem okay
Yeah I do.
@grue@lemmy.world in !fuckcars@lemmy.world applies the rules to everyone but his friends.
I had a hottake, https://lemmy.world/comment/14282775, yesterday. you might not be able to read it since he removed all my comments and banned me, so here it is.
his buddies started to attack me after I gave them real world examples to back up my opinion. they were rude and condescending and I responded in kind.
when I got back on all my responses were deleted for being "uncivil". so I reported all their comments that were uncivil and condescending or mocking. waited like 3 or 4 hours. zero response. so I called him out on it, https://lemmy.world/comment/14291055
since he removed that I'll post it here too.
yeah, it broke rules, but my anger was justified. dude is clearly abusing his mod powers.
all their "uncivil" and condescending retorts are all still there though. and here I am banned from the community because he got pissy that he got called out.
I reached out to another mod on there but they haven't been active since July.
TBF this isn't the only instance of "Reddit mod bigmad" I've experienced on here. the communities aren't a problem, it's the power-tripping mods from Reddit that got kicked out that will destroy Lemmy/fediverse.
Hi folks, I'm the mod @GreenKnight23 is complaining about.
I removed four of his comments for incivility, out of the eight he had posted in the thread at the time. I chose those four and only those four because they consisted pretty much entirely of insults and accusations against another user. I omitted the other four because, while some of them contained incivility too, they also contained valid arguments and/or weren't as egregious.
The comments removed were:
The contents of these comments are visible in the !fuckcars modlog:
https://lemmy.world/modlog/3902?page=1&actionType=All
He then proceeded to post the paranoid unhinged rant attacking me that he copied above, basically leaving me no choice but to ban him. After some waffling over the duration (which you can also see reflected in the modlog), I chose to temporarily ban him for 1 day, the shortest interval possible.
The contents of that removed comment are not visible in the !fuckcars modlog.
Later, he wrote the comment here in !selfhosted I'm now replying to (which I noticed because it showed up in my inbox due to the username mention) and I read that he claimed that all of his comments in the thread were removed. At first I thought it was just a blatant lie and began writing a rebuttal, but then I realized that he's right: all of them are gone, and there are no entries in the modlog detailing why they were removed or who did it.
I think what happened was that when I banned him, I checked the "remove content" checkbox thinking that it removed the comment I was banning him for, but it apparently removed all of his comments in the thread instead. Worse, it doesn't record in the modlog that that's what it did. On top of that, unbanning him doesn't undo the comment removals, which is unfortunate because testing that possibility and then re-banning him afterward reset the timer to the full 24 hours again.
Anyway, I've looked through the thread and attempted to individually restore the comments I never intended to remove. That in itself is difficult because I can't see what the original text was until I restore it, and the comment IDs apparently change(!) when the original text is overwritten or when they're viewed in context or something (I haven't quite figured out the reason yet), so I can't just match the numbers in the URLs. Nevertheless, the state of his comments in the thread should be as intended now. Also, I learned something new about how moderation works, so that's nice I guess.
P.S.: I'd like to give a special shout-out to this comment of his...
...which I not only didn't remove initially but also went to the trouble of restoring, even though it almost certainly deserves removal, just because of the minuscule chance that the deleted comment it's replying to contained something that somehow justified it. That's how lenient I've intended to be this entire time, and had still been in practice at the point @GreenKnight23 posted his rant.
P.P.S. I'm not actually colluding with any other users, BTW.
Mods are sad people
I also wouldn't know what they mean. Fascist takeover sounds like something I would notice?