Plebbit receives grant from Protocol Labs (IPFS/ETH2/Filecoin) to build decentralized Reddit alternative

Plebbit received a $5000 grant from Protocol Labs (the company behind IPFS, Filecoin and Gossipsub, the networking protocol used by ETH2) to build a decentralized Reddit alternative.

The grant application is linked here https://github.com/ipfs/devgrants/issues/143

Plebbit uses IPFS and Gossipsub in the following ways:

• IPFS for immutable data, like a published comment or a recent subplebbit page.
• IPNS for mutable data, like replies to a comment, upvote counts, new posts/comments published on a subplebbit, etc.
• Gossipsub for authors publishing comments/votes to a subplebbit and for the captcha challenge exchange between authors and subplebbits.

The milestones to be delivered in the next 2 months:

• Create a subplebbit using a GUI (Electron client with bundled IPFS binary)
• Publish posts, comments and votes over pubsub using a GUI (Web and Electron clients)
• Request and serve simple image captcha challenges over pubsub using a GUI (Web and Electron clients)
• Get a feed of multiple subplebbits using a GUI, with preloading optimizations of IPFS/IPNS data (Web and Electron clients)

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