Bitsocial is open source peer-to-peer social media protocol built on IPFS

can’t be down, censored, or controlled by any single authority.

Its also 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.

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 anti spam tools.

I would 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.

5chan is now the most complete app built on the protocol so far.

It’s a decentralized imageboard where anyone can create and cryptographically own the board/community.

Most boards are using Mintpass ( NFT-based authentication system that provides verified identity proofs for decentralized communities)

If you run your own community you can easily moderate it yourself,assign mods or maybe set up an AI agent to moderate it for you.

The community owner can also set posting rules and challenges for anti-spam things like captchas, email OTP etc...

You can use the web version, or download the desktop/mobile client if you want to run a full P2P node.

https://github.com/bitsocialnet/5chan