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Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk

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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

  • 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

    I mean, twitter sucked when it first launched, too. Doesn't mean it won't get better.

    Not sure why everyone is so hellbent on FOSS software to be in its most usable and polished state on launch but will buy prereleased and/or beta games and put in 10,000 hours into half finished games without batting an eye. The double standard for FOSS developers is insane to me.

  • 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

    I keep getting the suspicion that many of these flashy projects are red herrings paid by Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever to stop people from actually developing reasonable alternatives.

    Because shit like this keeps happening over and over.

  • I keep getting the suspicion that many of these flashy projects are red herrings paid by Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever to stop people from actually developing reasonable alternatives.

    Because shit like this keeps happening over and over.

    Turns out good web design skills does not always translate into other skills.

  • I keep getting the suspicion that many of these flashy projects are red herrings paid by Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever to stop people from actually developing reasonable alternatives.

    Because shit like this keeps happening over and over.

    Lol pretty sure if we're funded by these guys we would've been way faster with our development. P2P is hard, many pitfalls

  • Turns out good web design skills does not always translate into other skills.

    Protocol implementation plebbit-js is separated from client like Seedit

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    It's extremely traceable. There is a literal public ledger if every single transaction.
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    IMO stuff like that is why a good trainer is important. IMO it's stronger evidence that proper user-centered design should be done and a usable and intuitive UX and set of APIs developed. But because the buyer of this heap of shit is some C-level, there is no incentive to actually make it usable for the unfortunate peons who are forced to interact with it. See also SFDC and every ERP solution in existence.
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    i can this for essay writing, prior to AI people would use prompts and templates of the same exact subject and work from there. and we hear the ODD situation where someone hired another person to do all the writing for them all the way to grad school( this is just as bad as chatgpt) you will get caught in grad school or during your job interview. might be different for specific questions in stem where the answer is more abstract,