is there a federated platform similar to 4chan ie. topic boards with ephemeral linear message threads? i dunno how else to describe it but I like the 4chan format, it's just got the worst people in the world on there (which I figure could be mitigated by the federated server type thing)

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[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

IIRC, someone was talking about their p2p text only 4chan clone recently. I forget what it was called though.

Edit: found it.

https://github.com/plebbit/plebchan

[–] breadguy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

talking about seedit? also p2p has too many issues for a social platform

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What problems?

[–] breadguy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

needing to store everything on and transmit everything from user devices is kind of crazy for a social media. fine for messaging and file sharing, but social media works better when there's a place for the content to actually be stored and accessed from (preferably multiple communicative places!)

[–] mapto@feddit.bg 2 points 22 hours ago

Well, plebbit being text-only means exactly that any media content is being stored remotely on CDNs

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I was thinking of plebchan. From what I can tell, it's based off plebbit, which looks to be the same stack that seedit uses.

[–] breadguy@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll check it out but based on the name im guessing it'll be dogshit

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Its like bittorrent for social media.

[–] breadguy@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

yeah i just mean the name "plebchan" doesnt inspire a lot of confidence

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean, I'm familiar with plebbit and while I think its neat, its very clunky.