Lemmy was a great idea. It put reddit into the users hands. Its fast, works well and gave the community control of its community
I’m not endorsing Seedit, but I support decentralized social media and want to share information for those who are interested. This is not promotion, im ust spreading awareness.
I know a lot of people here hate Reddit (rightfully so) because of how they keep banning people for their opinions. If you miss the old Reddit experience but want something that actually decentralized and can’t be taken down, check out Seedit.
• Looks & feels like old Reddit
• Fully P2P on IPFS → No global admin to ban you
• You can self-host your own community
• ENS domains used for subplebbits
• MVP is coming in 2 weeks, and speed will improve
Right now, it’s a bit slow, but once the MVP drops, it’ll be fast. If anyone is seriously interested in running a community, you can dm me I’ll buy an ENS for you.
Seedit doesn’t rely on any servers. It’s pure P2P, running entirely on IPFS. No central authority, it literally can’t be taken down.
Seedit is NOT a Lemmy competitor. It’s part of the Plebbit protocol, which supports multiple UIs. In fact, a Lemmy-style UI is coming soon.
The code is fully open source, If you’re into decentralization and open protocols, check it out.
More like “Suedit”. Reddit has a lot of money for lawyers now, and will aggressively go after anything that looks like it, even if the look is old.
old.reddit was open source, also seedit is fully open source under GPLv2 license and it can’t get taken down (it’s serverless, and it’s hosted on IPFS)
edit: also, for example, there’s old.lemmy.world
Yes, all that is correct, but that doesn’t mean they won’t try anyway. You don’t necessarily need to be correct on the law in America to win, you just need to have the resources to pay more lawyers than the other side.
It’s hosted on Github, all it takes is a few billable hours for Reddit to send Github a cease and decist letter and … poof … the repo goes away unless Github decides to challenge (and they won’t challenge, nor will they bother asking the maintainer before killing it).
Did someone make a phone app out of the code? All it takes is a similar letter to Google and Apple to resolve that. Yes, the app developer can challenge it with them, but don’t expect to get very far.
Just a few billable hours can severely impact the reach of this project, even if the project is fully open source and thus allowed to be forked. You don’t need to be correct to send a C&D letter, in most cases the other party caves right away before challenging it.
So if you like the project, make sure to maintain your own private copy of the Github repo. It may not be there forever.
Not sure why you got a downvote, this is an extremely common tactic used against projects that big tech doesn’t like
We constantly back up all our code, yes. If our GitHub repos ever get taken down, we’ll just switch to GitLab, Codeberg or Radicle.
Sorry, didn’t realize you were a dev. Good luck!
(Although if I were you, I would migrate away from any hosting of anything related to the project that is owned by a US entity.)
yeah I feel that more than ever with the US entities and am in the US. Regardless of all the privacy and corruption that is in open season now, this is going to also lead to a massive enshitification of US companies because of the ever increasing monopolies and lack of competition