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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

one of the most best usecases for p2p and true open social media is not having this

Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I found an optimization in our Bitsocial code for helia where instead of waiting for IPNS providers to announce they're subscribed to pubsub topic, we just fetch them if they announce providing the cid of the topic without waiting for their subscriptionchange gossipsub emission.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ditch the DHT for http routers and it will speed up massively

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Bitsocial cofounder here, thanks for the review! One important thing to add is all Bitsocial apps are interopable, so 5chan users can browse and publish to seedit. Also, web clients dont host any data, only code to instruct where to find peers from, same as bittorrent. Lmk if u have any questions!

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

what would've been the better name tho?

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

im curious what happens if somebody spams from a blacksky app view and blacksky doesn't do anything about it? can bsky ban select people or only the app view?

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I imagine it's too easy for a gov to come to bsky.app and tell them to do <x> and <y> otherwise we will have our ISPs ban ur domain. Same thing happens with app stores

bsky.app

Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I wish there was more effort into self hosting app views as well since that's an easy chokepoint to influence, evidenced by the age verification with bluesky that was rolled out.

bsky.app

Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I think bluesky's reliance on traditional DNS is problematic, we've all seen how domains get seized or censored. I was hoping Bluesky would roll out their own naming system that can be resolved p2p, but to do that you would need a blockchain for consensus which I understand is not a good look

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Additionally, the article doesn't address users could have two modes of loading content - A user can load their subscription fully p2p with maximum censorship resistance, while fetching discovery feed from servers that have indexed the entire network.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

An assumption of this article is that pure p2p apps can't have "ownership" which I disagree with. Using IPNS you could have a mutable record that is updated over pubsub with a keypair and signature. It will allow for BitTorrent level of scale while giving users/communities ownership of their data.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

niiice hoping the issue with not providing cids to http routers is fixed

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

work is getting done on standardizing media for content addressablity. Pretty good for decentralized social media in the long term if we could have native p2p vids at some point

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Anywhere I can find this in .epub format instead of pdf? Would love to read it in my e-book reader

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

that article is the most obvious AI slop also

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

p2p tech is not easy, we thought we would have an MVP of a p2p communities reddit-like UI within 6 months but it took us 4 years and we're still grinding

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

We would love to use that for our communities since one of our biggest risks is private key leaking or getting stolen. If there's any updates on this lmk

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Couldn't you give it high ttl but low cache duration so your IPNS record would stay around forever - assuming other people are joining the pubsub topic and keep the cid alive?

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

is it possible to have try peersky out on a webpage instead of its own app? Should be possible in theory with helia, no? DHT wouldn't work though so you would have to use http routers for finding providers

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Plebbit (soon to rebranded to PKC/Bitsocial) solves this by peers exchanges challenges and answers with community owner directly via pubsub. Happy to be corrected though

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

You can either host your own gateway (but increases your costs and maintenance) or delegate it to somebody else, but then the person running the gateway can just lie and say peer <y> did solve all challenges correctly.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My biggest problem with it is not having arbitary challenges builtin, my understanding if you're community owner <x> and want to ask peer <y> to solve an anti spam challenge, you have to deploy an HTTP "gateway" that author needs to communicate with first, acquire the writing token.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I read about Willow and I have a few thoughts: - Willow seems to designed primarily for private access communities, I understand it has a mode for public but it's not as robust as we would like it to be.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

also is it just me or is Discover feed really bad with finding relevant content to my interests?

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

somebody should label all tweets with videos/photos/screenshots of trump so I can mute them altogether. Very annoyed by them

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IPFS @ipfs.tech · 11/12/2025

We're drafting our 2026 plans to make browsers better for the decentralized web and would love your input. What matters to you? What are we missing? 🔮 discuss.ipfs.tech/t/browsers-s...

discuss.ipfs.tech

Browsers & Standards Work 2026: Call for Community Input

TL;DR: IPFS is planning the next phase of work to make browsers better for the decentralized web – not just IPFS, but any protocol that needs lightweight crypto, peer-to-peer connections, or native br...

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Is there a way to have cloudflare captcha or some kind of difficult to automate captcha over p2p and no SSL/DNS involved?

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@hexmani.ac also mintpass will add other ways to authenticate in the future by paying crypto to get your NFT

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

this is mintpass, one of the challenges you can set for your subplebbit (community) github.com/plebbitlabs/... A community can set up any kind of arbitary challenge, since it's just an API with `getChallenge` and `verifyChallengeAnswer`. You can have a whitelist, question-answer based challenge

github.com

GitHub - plebbitlabs/mintpass: NFT-based authentication system for Plebbit communities

NFT-based authentication system for Plebbit communities - plebbitlabs/mintpass

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

there's also a blog client made by @tomplebeius.bsky.social but it needs to be updated

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

yeah made by @tomplebeius.bsky.social all clients are interoperable with each other since the protocol is the same

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

@naizuri.moe or if you prefer CLI check out github.com/plebbit/pleb...

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

yeah content is not great atm because not many people are running communities. We're looking to market within a few months once bugs are fixed and usability is pretty good

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

we're still hashing out a lot of bugs, not at MVP stage yet. Not many people running communities too so the content is stale

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

the p2p in browser is WIP but eventually browser peers will gossip to peers in network without any intermediaries + can also do bitswap. Although they can't provide content to other peers, only desktop nodes can do that

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

you can also go to seedit.app but that would load content from ipfs gateway (we still validate Cidv0(loadedContent) = requestedCidV0) and you publish pubsub messages to pubsub providers which gossip it to the network. That's all temporary, in the next few months we're gonna have p2p in browser too

seedit.app

seedit

serverless, adminless, decentralized reddit alternative

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I didn't make that landing page lol somebody from the community did. Maybe they vibe coded it or something. But that landing page doesn't use the protocol at all, you wanna go to github.com/plebbit/seedit and download the desktop app which embeds an ipfs node for pure p2p experience

github.com

GitHub - plebbit/seedit: A GUI for plebbit similar to old.reddit

A GUI for plebbit similar to old.reddit . Contribute to plebbit/seedit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Federation based designs aren't ideal because instance admins can delete user accounts and communities. Instance admins can block other instances. It's too difficult to run your own instance, you need to buy a domain name, server, DDOS protection, set up SSL, etc.

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Agreed DHT is terrible. We rolled out plebbit nodes with it at the beginning but then had to switch to using http routers that's basically keyv of cidv0 to peers, same as bittorrent trackers. IPFS shipyard just published 0.39 with a lot of optimization for DHT providing logic, we may try DHT again

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

are you referring to corrupted bits or cryptography here? when we say trustless for plebbit we're referring to not needing to verify your instance or federation because all content is addressable + signed, same way bittorrent is trustless because you verify content => hash and drop peers who lie

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

not all ISPs, and you can get around it with VPN anyway

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Rinse - Bitsocial @rinse-bitsocial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

can't imagine streaming with ipfs, the latency would go off the charts. Weren't there projects that did streaming on top of bittorrent? Not sure if they went anywhere

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