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Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.

ENS domain are used to name communities.

Plebbit currently offers different UIs. Old reddit and new reddit, 4chanw, andhave a Blog. Plebbit intend to have an app, internet archive, wiki and twitter and Lemmy. Choice is important. The backend/communities are shared across clients.

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    8 days ago

    “The whole DNS system is a complete scam” says the person advocating for crypto and NFTs

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      8 days ago

      I mean, that’s the one thing he is right about. Also, it’s far from being secure. I somehow made the DNS system break someday, as I was able to “buy” an already-registered domain. The domain ownership was overriden and the original owner couldn’t do anything. I have not been able to replicate the bug on any other target, but understanding the bug and finding an exploit is basically unlocking god-mode on 99% of computers as you can mitm all you want with this

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      8 days ago

      Imagine you buy a cheap domain name for $0.99 a year from namecheap to be lonefaerie.lol or something

      Next year they ask for $19.99 because they can. If you set up an account with that name you can either pay more or have to change accounts

      Why can’t we just buy domain names for like 30 year periods?