

Where can I find the protocol specifications?
Where can I find the protocol specifications?
Great question! Unlike Lemmy, which relies on federation with dedicated servers, Plebbit is fully peer-to-peer (P2P) and does not have a central server or even instances. Instead, storage happens via a combination of IPFS and users seeding data. Here’s how it works:
Subplebbit Owners Host the Data (Like Torrent Seeders)
Users Act as Temporary Seeders
IPFS for Content Addressing
PubSub for Live Updates
Feature | Lemmy | Plebbit |
---|---|---|
Hosting Model | Federated servers (instances) | Fully P2P (no servers) |
Who Stores Data? | Instance owners (like Reddit mods running a server) | Subplebbit owners & users (like torrents) |
If Owner Goes Offline? | Instance still exists; data stays up | The community disappears unless users seed it |
Historical Content Availability | Instances keep all posts forever | Older data may disappear if not seeded |
Scalability | Limited by instance storage & bandwidth | Infinite, as long as people seed |
It’s a radical trade-off for decentralization and censorship resistance, but if no one cares about a community, the content naturally dies off. No server, no mods deleting you from a database—just pure P2P.
Hope that clears it up! 🚀
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.
Nowhere in the project whitepaper or FAQ does it talk about banning image hosting. Base64 encoding images in the text post is trivial, so maybe OP is the one projecting this intent or feature?
I really enjoyed MDK/MDK2 as a kid. I don’t know any modern platformers to comment on quality now vs then.
That article is for lay-persons and really an awareness article I surmise. If you’re technical you are likely already aware of the security concerns with jacascript.
Malicious javascript seeks to bypass security controls. It’s one of the reasons NoScript is a thing. It could be a malware loaded from an ad. Biggest reason for adblockers imo.
Check out this link for learning about this stuff.
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/javascript-malware-explained/
Word of caution, if you have been browsing successfully until now, it could be a malicious javascript app or malware loaded from that website that is attempting to scan your network or do other things. In other words if this is a new firewall request above and beyond the standard one librewolf needs to function, proceed with cation.
Anyone remember Noob Saibot?
No judgement here. I think it’s a worthy goal just not one I am particularly interested in at this point. Maybe if the automation was a bit easier and the mobile device management was easier I might join you.
My experience is it’s really a lot of work and with the prevalence of letsencrypt, there is not a lot of automated setups for this use case (at least that I have been able to find). It is kind of a pain in the ass to run your own CA, especially if you plan to not use wildcard and to rotate certs often. If you use tailscale, they offer https certs with a subdomain given to you:
[server-name].[tailnet-name].ts.net
That’s honestly what I’m moving towards.
Another vote for wiki.js. It has tons of authentication options and integrations. The mobile web interface is a tad clunky but usable.
I have plenty of times, which is why I went hunting for a way to disable it.
Yes that is the setting to turn on the “search bar” but it doesn’t revert omnibar to only URLs.
Firefox has omnibox and it’s not as easy to turn off as you think. The immediately available settings do some things like add the “search” box back but the “URL” box still functions as the omnibox. Have to play around with about:config and even then I haven’t figured out how to change it turn back time to the before times.
I rip with makemkv then use handbrake for slimming down to hevc/aac. I have too many discs and not enough storage to keep the raw rips. Newer handbrake supports nvidia transcoding for hevc, getting some great quality, but I wish it would support audio tracks and subtitles better… for multilingual subtitles I have a custom ffmpeg script that does a decent enough job.
Also cropping can be a pain in the ass with both ffmpeg and handbrake, much less so on the latter.
I think that will come about the same time they bring out custom maps and VR…never.
Don’t forget about the exploited workforce which might be more than the obscene prices.