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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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    3 days ago

    Leave it to cryptos to make simple things stupidly difficult. This whole piece you quoted was hilarious, but this part especially stuck out for me:

    The base protocol doesn’t use tokens, which lets people who don’t have interest in cryptocurrency (yet) use it for free

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      2 days ago

      “You don’t know it yet, but deep inside you’re already a cryptobro like us.”

      Ah ah they wish.