This project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people. Social media is the lifeblood of the modern Internet, to censor someone is to cut them off from a significant part of society. Reddit/Facebook, even twitter have become a lot more corporatised in recent years, its interests no longer allign with users.

Seedit is a selfhosted, opensource, adminless nonprofit social media. The github link is at the bottom. It runs on peer-to-peer . Surprisingly, its not been used like this before. Due to P2P it can scale to an infinite number of users for no cost.

A community can be created by anyone with a button click. It can be owned by a single or group of people. The community is self hosted and can be seeded or backed up by anyone. The owner has full control over the community - can add moderators, delete posts, ban users, have requirements to post. The possibilities are limitless. Communities cannot be taken down. If an owner goes insane, seeders who have a copy of the community can simply recreate it and carry on as before.

Seedit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

Devs are politically neutral and aim to foster a positive and non-toxic social media site. It has an official list of recomended subs, these will all be family friendly subs. Its easy to request to be added to the list to improve discoverability. Toxic subs cant be banned,

Seedit is more accessible then Lemmy, mastodon due to not needing instances. Moderators can still ban ips or share ban lists of spammers if they so wish.

all that matters is open sourcing social media. The democratic flow of accessible information is the most important thing. There’s currently 3 fulltime devs.

We’re always open to new devs joining Plebbit!

if it goes against the protocol principles, people can fork it.

Seedit is a little slow to load but significant breakthroughs increasing the speed have been made. They are working out some bugs and will release in the coming weeks.

Plebbit offers different UIs. Seedit is old Reddit, have a newReddit frontend. Plebchan which 4chan They intend to have an app, internet archive, a Facebook and Twitter and Lemmy frontend too. Choice is important. The backend/communities are shared across clients.

Plebbit is not lemmy competitor

https://github.com/plebbit - Plebbit Github

Plebbit.com - Central website of Plebbit related information

https://github.com/plebbit/seedit/releases - Plebbit desktop app.

Plebbit.works - Centralised but fast version of Plebbit showcasing what its capable of.

Plebbit.online - Stats on usage of Plebbit

If you’re interested in starting a community or getting involved in the project, just reach out on Telegram at @estebanabaroa

I’m happy to help, and I can even grab an ENS domain for you if you need one.

The Plebbit MVP should be ready in about 3 weeks.

We do have a token, but you don’t need it to use the platform, you can actually earn money on Plebbit by getting tipped.