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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/AnarchistBorn on 2025-10-21 12:04:53+00:00.

it’s open source, anyone can contribute or add a feature

no central servers, no global admins to shut down communities

Unlike federated platforms, like lemmy and Mastedon, there are no instances or servers to rely on

what’s different from reddit is that there are no global admins that can ban a community, you cryptographically own your community via public key cryptography.

It mainly use 3 technologies, which each have several protocols and specifications:

IPFS (for content-addressed, immutable content, similar to bittorrent)

IPNS (for mutable content, public key addressed)

Libp2p Gossipsub (for publishing content and votes p2p)