I’m a retired coder, These days, I mostly scroll around Lemmy to kill time, but something caught my eye recently, a post about this protocol called Plebbit.

Honestly? At first, the name put me off. Sounded like a joke, plebbit word was a sluar used against redditors…But I was curious enough to check it out and I’m glad I did. Plebbit is basically a protocol that combines the structure of Reddit and all other social media with the tech behind torrents. Every sub is its own instance, and everything is peer-to-peer. No central servers, no single point of failure. It’s simple, but it hits at something big : real decentralized social media.

After digging into it (and chatting with the dev a bit : an anonymous dev named Esteban Abaroa)I started thinking… what if Lemmy could run on top of this? No more relying on any one instance just pure P2P. So yeah, I have decided to build a Lemmy client on top of Plebbit.

Still not a fan of the name but the idea is solid. And honestly, I think we might need this more than we realize.

If anyone has name suggestions for the client, I’d love to hear them. I’ll leave the GitHub link here so you can check out the code yourself.

github.com/plebbit

Need your honest opinions, guys.

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