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Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk (plebbit.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’ll be honest, I really believed in Plebbit.

The idea of a truly decentralized, peer-to-peer social platform felt like something the internet desperately needed. A space beyond centralized servers, censorship, and platform overlords. Something that wasn’t just “Reddit, but a real shift in how we interact online.

Plebbit pitched that dream. They talked about p2p everything : hosting, moderation, identity. They made it sound like the future was finally within reach. And I wanted to believe.

But over time… it became clear. It was all talk. All hype. All roadmap, no road.

Constant delays with vague excuses.

Overpromising, under delivering at every stage.

“Community governance” that never materialized beyond buzzwords.

A dev team that slowly drifted into silence while the protocol rotted. I kept checking in, hoping something had changed. That maybe I’d been too impatient. But no. It wasn’t just slow, it was never real to begin with.

So, I’m sticking with Lemmy. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s real. Maybe we’ll get the true decentralization we’ve been promised one day

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The closest I've seen to true decetralisation is nostr, all other protocols either died or were just concepts. Activitypub is a good middle ground between true decentralisation and centralised services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Jack Dorsey, despite how much of a piece of shit he is, recognized that and backed nostr over bluesky, in the end.