Bitsocial is very similar to bittorrent and inspired by bittorrent, it uses content addressing (files are addressed by their hash, like the torrent infohashes), trackers and DHT. it also scales infinitely and becomes faster and more censorship resistant the more peers there are.
It’s also text-based by design. You can’t upload media directly. If someone wants to share media, they have to link to an external host and the UI just embeds it. That means it’s hosted on centralized sites (like Imgur, etc.) that know the uploader’s IP, can remove illegal content quickly, and report it to the authorities.
If it gets taken down, the embed just 404s. There’s also a character limit, so base64 is not really practical.
Because it’s decentralized, it can’t be taken down, censored, or controlled by any single authority.
But that’s just the beginning, the protocol is designed to support any kind of community space. The goal is to have UIs for things like Facebook-style groups, events, meetups, Discourse-style discussions, and old school forums/message boards, internet archive, wiki…etc .
With Bitsocial , moderation is also left to the communities themselves, so each group can decide its own rules and tools.
Bitsocial is not private, just like bittorrent isn’t
Bitsocial works like torrents, so very illegal stuff can’t thrive on it. Your IP address is visible in the p2p swarm and can be tracked by authorities. If you decide to use Bitsocial via Tor or VPNs, the liability falls on them
Anyone can run their own node and create their own community .
They cryptographically own the community .
Also and the most important
Because Bitsocial is ipfs based people can selfhost their website on it. It uses the same underlying infrastructure as torents. It can also be used to communicate with other users.
Bitsocial Github
https://github.com/bitsocialnet
We mainly use 3 technologies, which each have several protocols and specifications: IPFS (for content-addressed, immutable content, similar to bittorrent) https://docs.ipfs.tech/ https://specs.ipfs.tech/
IPNS (for mutable content, public key addressed) https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipns/
Libp2p Gossipsub (for publishing content and votes p2p) https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/pubsub/overview/
main goal is to enable truly censorship-resistant communities that aren’t controlled by any single platform.
I’d like to see people build all kinds of spaces on top of it, forums, old-school message boards, niche communities while keeping everything peer-to-peer and decentralized.
OP’s profile:
Working on Plebbit
For those who don’t know, that was a shitty hard right wing social media that kept talking vaguely about how it was like crypto and torrenting.
For years now people have been spamming it to the threadiverse and trying to trick people into joining.
If you go to this website:
It lists 5chan as inspiration…
And people are upvoting and promoting this entirely unmoderated chan board because two seconds of research is too difficult…
Like, c’mon people, critical thinking is important now more than ever
Quick edit:
And to be clear this is the exact same project OP always spams, they just keep changing the name of it. It used to be accessible over the web tho, which allowed everyone to see the fucking horrendously racist, bigoted, and outright illegal shit they want people to be able to post.
/me looks your post up and down
Welp, added to the “list of ass”, right below Brave and ProtonMail.
What’s wrong with Proton?!
The CEO, i guess.
To me is that they’re trying to be everything.
It’s also text-based by design. You can’t upload media directly. If someone wants to share media, they have to link to an external host and the UI just embeds it.
Kids still learning about base64 encoding.
There’s also a character limit, so base64 is not really practical.
🤣
Yeah - alt.binaries never worked.
Then moderate? What is your point?
If you’re demanding a moderation-free internet community, good luck!
Bitsocial is very similar to bittorrent and inspired by bittorrent
You can’t upload media directly
Inspired by a media sharing protocol so you can not share media… 😖
It would be great if someone could have explained the key differrences between this and gnunet/zeronet/hyphanet/SSB
Look at OPs profile and you’ll quickly see all the massive issues with their great plan of “4chan with absolutely zero moderation”.
Yeah, “built on ipfs” is a decent red flag.
That is a wild take imo.
Why? I’m curious.
The only things I see it used for are 4chan replacements and crypto bs. This seems to aspire to be the former.
you are mistaken about it. There is a lots of other use for ipfs.
Yeah I noticed, finding the idea interesting i looked at what apps they have and it’s a 4chan clone, a reddit clone that doesn’t seem to load, an antispam (good), and some crypto things. Disappointing.
I would love a decentralized p2p social network but no media is an instant dealbreaker.
