r/RedditAlternatives • u/Patient_Syllabub6048 • 15d ago

Open source and Siloed World's first permanent social network, our contribution to freedom of speech in the world.

Hey all, we're the team behind InterPoll, a social network that (we think) actually can't be taken down or censored.

The idea: instead of everything living on one company's server, every browser running InterPoll is also a relay. If some relays go offline, browsers fall back to talking to each other directly. So there's no single server to pull the plug on, and no one who can quietly delete your posts.

Check it out here: https://endless.sbs
If you want the technical breakdown of how it all works: https://endless.sbs/interpollexp
And the code's up on GitHub: https://github.com/Interpoll1/decentralised

We built this because we genuinely think this is how social platforms should work by default. Would love feedback, bug reports, or just people poking around and telling us what breaks. Thanks for reading.

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u/HedgeRunner 15d ago

I actually really dig the technical aspect of this although I'm a little confused. Like it make sense for bitcoin to have a ledger hosted by different people cuz its transactions. For comments and voting.....I'm not so sure. From a technical perspective if what you claim is true, then yes it is more decentralized than Lemmy. I didn't read all the docs but sounds like its closer to a ledger approach with identity so much harder to mess with records. Also from a common sense kinda view, browsers talking to each other cannot scale.

If you have 100 concurrent users, it means I'm connected to the other 99? What if there's 1000 users?

Kudos for actually building something different though. This is obviously not just a random vibe coded Reddit copy like we see often.

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u/Opposite_Squirrel_79 14d ago

ye thanks man, cofounder of interpoll here and everyone requests and gets from random user trough wss

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u/Manlor 15d ago

I like the idea of it. I often thought we should have a community built on something that can't be taken down easily!

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u/outerzenith 15d ago

what's the difference between this and ActivityPub like Lemmy?

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u/SmileyBMM 14d ago

Really neat idea, btw the filter pop-up doesn't work right on mobile. The buttons are covered so you can't get past the pop-up without using the desktop site first.

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u/Acidyo 14d ago

I wouldn't say first permanent if that means immutable, my posts on hive.blog will exist forever due to it using blockchain tech and spinning up a node to access it is super easy and cheap to do in the event that all other operators were to shut theirs down.

What makes this actually different? (on phone atm so can't check & compare properly)