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Rebranding our open-source Selfhosted social project to Bitsocial (github.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by EstebanAbaroa@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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a while ago we shared our peer-to-peer project here multiple times under the name Plebbit, and honestly you guys were right The name wasn’t it.

We have decided to rebrand to Bitsocial, which feels way cleaner and more serious for what we are building.

5chan, Seedit clients and any other app we will make, will all be branded as Bitsocial apps

All info (intro, docs, roadmap, links) to be released on bitsocial.net later this month.

We also took your feedback seriously and we are now implementing proper sign-in options like:

Google GitHub (and more coming later)

So yeah thanks for the honest feedback

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Honest comment: Bitsocial sounds an awful lot like Truth Social.

If that comparison is unintentional and not desired, maybe reconsider the name.

If that is intentional, we are probably not your target audience.

[–] priapus@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago

Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.

It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hear BitTorrent with that name

[–] EstebanAbaroa@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For us, Bitsocial just means BitTorrent for social media, nothing political.

[–] kumi@feddit.online 0 points 1 day ago

If not for political reasons then why limit first version to Google/GitHub rather than starting with generic OIDC (which should include those two anyway)?

We also took your feedback seriously and we are now implementing proper sign-in options like: Google GitHub (and more coming later)

[–] EstebanAbaroa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

We chose BitSocial because it’s closer to “BitTorrent for social media”

the “bit” part is about peer-to-peer distribution and protocol design, not politics or ideology.

We are not trying to mirror Truth Social or target any specific political audience.

Our goal goal is a neutral, open-source, decentralized social media protocol.