I discovered Plebbit recently and i must say i am awestruck by just how great it is!! i love it, P2P is the future!! But i dislike the heavy promotion and links with the crypto coins of plebbit... why does this P2P reddit alternative have to be linked so heavily with crypto? Im mostly confused
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the use of crypto powered domains improves durability against censorship. normal domains can be purged on a whim.
Because Plebbit is about removing middlemen & radical decentralization which are the same ideas that lead to the creation of cryptocurrencies. You will find a strong overlap between people who like p2p message boards and p2p currencies. Watch this video if you want to understand why cryptocurrency isn't (or shouldn't be) about making money.
Do you see how the sub you are posting now ends in .sol? Or how many others are "subname.eth"? Plebbit doesn't necessarily needs crypto to work on the protocol level but it makes it look pretty. Otherwise sub names would be a random string of characters.
Because it's free marketing. The plebbit token that is.