You don't need the token to post or create your own community or anything like that. Our plans for the token is to be used for tipping (in a decentralized manner, without relaying on payment processors) and voting within Plebbit clients (which is up to the client dev).

serves only to enrich the owners Assuming Plebbit token gets massive appreciation, we now as the community have a lot of funds to spend on developing new clients to replace centralized web2 platforms like:

• Discord
• Telegram
• Meetup
• Vbulletin
• Discourse
• Facebook groups

A project appreciating in value is not a bad thing, it's not a bad thing when you pay developer teams to push p2p decentralized social media.

Voting power decided by buying power is about the most undemocratic system possible short of autocracy

The token is not forced upon anyone, and even if we start including it in the clients somehow, anybody can fork the clients and remove any token related stuff out of it.

Tokenizing your own project is a great way of supporting development without selling shares to VCs who only care about hyper growth, regardless of the ideals of the project.

Obfuscating the purpose and structure of your organization to either intentionally or unwittingly dodge regulations that would protect your shareholders is not a great look.

Not sure what you mean by that, everything we do is out in the open.

How do you think the token affects the decentralization of the project?

Plebbit is text only, hard to imagine the kind of illegal material that will be sneaked that way. If anybody want to share illegal material, they're probably using tor not a pure p2p solution which is easier to trace.

Yeah I don't mind having an account on Bluesky, and will be making one shortly.

Ideally hosting your node should be easier, it doesn't seem they care about it that much which concerns me

99.99% of cases won't matter because most people won't seed random content forever. If the sub owner purge it from their node, I highly doubt anybody else would come across it unless there's like a group dedicated to seeding and sharing removed content

There will be no way for new people to discover the purged content through the community itself.

Now, if you had the CID of a purged content and there are people seeding it to you, then yes Plebbit functions like any P2P network in which anyone can fetch a content that's seeded by somebody

But then who's hosting my content and till when they're hosting it?

There's a button in the UI to purge comment from your community as a mod. What will happen is:

• The comment will be removed from your node
• The comment will be removed from your community pages (people who load your community won't see it)

because if images are hosted on ipfs

Plebbit is text-only protocol, all images in the clients are links to image hosting websites.

If somebody does something illegal, it's up to the government to act on it. Also users of clients can choose to omit certain communities or keywords from their feed. This is a healthier approach than letting a few dudes in Silicon valley telling us what to see/think

Protocol implementation plebbit-js is separated from client like Seedit

Lol pretty sure if we're funded by these guys we would've been way faster with our development. P2P is hard, many pitfalls

There's moderation on the community level, each community is moderated by their owners, or the owners can pick people to moderate in their stead.

There's moderation though, each community is moderated by their owners, or the owners can pick people to moderate in their stead.

There's no such thing as global admins though

How so? If you're running your node it is.

You don't need to develop a project for 3 years to rugpull it. Rug pulls are low effort

The founder funded this with more than half a million of his own money to build it, if he just wanted to pump and dump a token there are easier ways

Admins of communities can delete stuff. The doc was referring to global admins, there are no global admins on Plebbit.

also Plebbit nodes don't store images, we only store links to images hosted somewhere else.

First link you sent is a scam, the token is not part of the protocol atm

Sure, I’m just worried it’ll have similar problems as reddit, just without global admins to fix/enforce things

I disagree, I think Reddit ruined their own subreddits. If you're a community owner, you know your community best and know how to moderate it. They're the most invested in it after all.