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I came across something interesting while browsing /redditalternative—a protocol that claims to be a fully decentralized, self-hosted, peer-to-peer Reddit alternative called Seedit. (self.selfhosted)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by LifeSeeker to c/selfhosted

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I made some research, and here’s what I found:

Seedit is an open-source, peer-to-peer,decentralized Reddit alternative abuilt on IPFS . • There are no central servers, no admins, and no way to shut down communities—meaning true censorship resistance. • Unlike federated platform, there are no instances or servers to rely on.

How it works:

• Plebbit is the backend protocol that powers everything. • There are different UIs for browsing: • Seedit (Reddit-style interface) • Plebchan (4chan-style interface) • Both UIs share the same communities and content—you just pick the experience you prefer.

Some things to note:

• Your profile picture can only be an NFT, which is kind of a red flag.

• There’s a token involved which is also a redflag but using the platform itself is free.

• No need for DNS or SSL—it runs purely on IPFS.

Links:

• Seedit official site: seedit.app (seems to load very slowly)

• Plebbit.works: plebbit.works (centralized but much faster version)

• GitHub repo: github.com/plebbit/seedit

What do you guys think? Anyone tried it yet?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not entirely enthusiastic about the fact that the maintaining GitHub account is using an avatar that appears to be a flaming Pepe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The group of repos also is an alternate 4chan.

I have no clue about the code, haven’t looked, but it has consistent work done and some people use it. In this context, I would feel less good about the code if Pepe was not in the picture

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

NFT is a big red flag. Isn’t IPFS practically dead and only runs through one gateway so it very much can is and centralized

[–] davad 2 points 5 days ago

I don't know how dead it is, but it's pretty straightforward to set up your own gateway (public or private). Even if you don't have a tech background, there's the "IPFS Desktop" app that stands up the IPFS service locally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It was already discussed and bashed here: https://lemmy.world/post/23704373

[–] fatalicus 3 points 5 days ago

Brand new account, with no other post or comment.

Nice ad account you got there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Seems like more plebbit spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

IPFS rant

I wanted IPFS to be successful 5 years ago. I wish it had been successful, but barely anything has changed. It's a resource hog with a terrible UX. There's nothing easy about it and the documentation is straight to "here's our HTTP API". Gee, thanks, what about the people who don't want to immediately write an application?

Uh... Where do you get that it uses IPFS? I checked the seedit repo and it doesn't seem to mention it in the dependencies nor readme.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

When I click the link in the seedit repo, on the webpage it says "fetching ipns from ipfsgateway.xyz"