I made some research, and hereā€™s what I found:

Seedit is anĀ open-source, peer-to-peer,decentralized Reddit alternative abuilt on IPFSĀ . ā€¢ There areĀ no central servers, no admins, and no way to shut down communitiesā€”meaning true censorship resistance. ā€¢ Unlike federated platform,Ā there are no instances or servers to rely on.

How it works:

ā€¢ Plebbit is the backend protocolĀ that powers everything. ā€¢ There areĀ different UIsĀ for browsing: ā€¢ SeeditĀ (Reddit-style interface) ā€¢ PlebchanĀ (4chan-style interface) ā€¢ Both UIs share the same communities and contentā€”you just pick the experience you prefer.

Some things to note:

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

ā€¢ Thereā€™s a token involved which is also a redflag but using the platform itself isĀ free.

ā€¢ No need for DNS or SSLā€”it runs purely on IPFS.

Links:

ā€¢ Seedit official site:Ā seedit.appĀ (seems to load very slowly)

ā€¢ Plebbit.works:Ā plebbit.worksĀ (centralized but much faster version)

ā€¢ GitHub repo:Ā github.com/plebbit/seedit

What do you guys think? Anyone tried it yet?

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    15 hours ago

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

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      14 hours ago

      The group of repos also is an alternate 4chan.

      I have no clue about the code, havenā€™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