Rebranding our open-source Selfhosted social project to Bitsocial (github.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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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[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 16 points 5 months ago

I hear BitTorrent with that name

[-] EstebanAbaroa@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

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

[-] kumi@feddit.online 2 points 5 months 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)

this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026

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