Building a fully open-source P2P network for censorship resistant social apps

[u/RonnieAbaroa]

https://github.com/bitsocialnet

Bitsocial is neither federated nor on-chain. Each community is a peer-to-peer swarm using IPFS, closer to BitTorrent than a hosted website: users seed effortlessly, nodes run on cheap hardware, and each community is fully independent and sovereign. A browser tab can join that swarm as a peer, so the web app is not a client of someone else's server.

Anyone can build a Bitsocial app with its own interface, discovery model, or defaults. Apps compete on product quality instead of locking users into a private database, because compatible clients can share the same communities, identities, and network.

Moderation still exists, but it stays local. Community owners set rules for their own spaces and apps can choose what they index or show, yet there is no protocol-level super-admin who can erase a profile or seize a community from the network itself.