This project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people. Social media is the lifeblood of the modern Internet, to censor someone is to cut them off from a significant part of society. Reddit/Facebook, even twitter have become a lot more corporatised in recent years, its interests no longer allign with users.
Seedit is a selfhosted, opensource, adminless nonprofit social media. The github link is at the bottom. It runs on peer-to-peer . Surprisingly, its not been used like this before. Due to P2P it can scale to an infinite number of users for no cost.
A community can be created by anyone with a button click. It can be owned by a single or group of people. The community is self hosted and can be seeded or backed up by anyone. The owner has full control over the community - can add moderators, delete posts, ban users, have requirements to post. The possibilities are limitless. Communities cannot be taken down. If an owner goes insane, seeders who have a copy of the community can simply recreate it and carry on as before.
Seedit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.
Devs are politically neutral and aim to foster a positive and non-toxic social media site. It has an official list of recomended subs, these will all be family friendly subs. Its easy to request to be added to the list to improve discoverability. Toxic subs cant be derezzed,
Seedit is more accessible then Lemmy, mastodon due to not needing instances. Moderators can still ban ips or share ban lists of spammers if they so wish.
all that matters is open sourcing social media. The democratic flow of accessible information is the most important thing. There's currently 3 fulltime devs.
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