Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer network for social apps, with no servers, no global bans, where users and communities are cryptographic property.
Core Features
Bitsocial is free and open source software: the protocol and clients are public, forkable, and open to outside contributions. Anyone can inspect the code, ship improvements, or build a compatible app without asking permission from a company.
Bitsocial is neither federated nor on-chain. Each community is a peer-to-peer swarm, closer to BitTorrent than a hosted website: users seed what they read, nodes can run on cheap hardware, and each community can enforce its own anti-spam challenge instead of depending on a global platform policy.
Bitsocial does not require every community to rent a datacenter box, buy a domain, or manage SSL just to stay online. A community node can run from home on consumer hardware, and there is no single company-run backend that can take the whole network down.
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.
Profiles and communities are controlled by private keys, not by revocable platform accounts. You can delegate hosting without giving away ownership, so your identity and community behave more like wallet-controlled property than a username rented from a company.
It just works.
No servers to rent. No domains to buy. No chains to sync. A Bitsocial node runs on a Raspberry Pi. And each community can enforce its own anti-spam challenge: captchas, reputation, SMS, payments, tokens, IP checks, or anything else that can be coded.
Federated
Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy
Self-hosting cost
Server + domain + SSL
Who keeps it online
Service / instance operator
Scaling model
Bigger instances, higher bills
Custom anti-spam logic
Not built into the protocol
Takedown choke points
Host, registrar, SSL, DDoS provider
Chain / Hub
Farcaster, Lens, DeSo, Steemit
Self-hosting cost
Expensive node, hub, or RPC
Who keeps it online
Chain, hub, or RPC infrastructure
Scaling model
More state, heavier infra
Custom anti-spam logic
Tied to chains, hubs, or fees
Takedown choke points
Validators, hubs, RPCs
Bitsocial
Pure P2P with arbitrary anti-spam challenges
Self-hosting cost
Extremely cheap, runs on Raspberry Pi
Who keeps it online
Community owners + helper seeders
Scaling model
More peers, more bandwidth
Custom anti-spam logic
Built in: challenge can be anything
Takedown choke points
No single choke point
“Your community literally cannot be banned or blocked by anyone, even a government. We solve that problem.”— Esteban Abaroa, Bitsocial founder
A Call to Action
Bitsocial wins by attracting as many builders as possible. Run your own unstoppable community, develop your own decentralized social app, or even launch your own business on top of Bitsocial. The tide rises with every builder.
Decentralize imageboards
Imageboards are the simplest form of social media to decentralize: anonymous posting, few default boards, and no profile graph. This is why we're launching 5chan, the first Bitsocial app. 5chan proves Bitsocial can replace centralized imageboards while removing global admins from the equation.
5chan is the first proof point, not the finish line. We want multiple imageboard clients with different cultures, interfaces, and defaults: altchan-style boards, mobile-first experiments, niche communities, and forks that solve needs 5chan never will.
Launch Bitsocial RPC
Bitsocial Forge will launch the first non-custodial RPC service for Bitsocial apps. Bitsocial RPC will let users manage nodes remotely, while preserving the option to self-host or run competing RPC infrastructure. Users will be able to create and manage unstoppable p2p communities from mobile.
Decentralize forums
Forums add persistent identities, post history, and community management. Our first prototype Bitsocial app to decentralize forums is Seedit, a reddit alternative. Seedit will bring Reddit-style discussion to Bitsocial, once Bitsocial RPC makes always-on P2P communities practical from anywhere.
Launch Bitsocial Network
In order to decentralize all social media, Bitsocial apps will need killer features and strong network effects, unstoppable financial structures, decentralized Bitsocial domains (.bso), common liquidity. All of this will be powered by Bitsocial Network, a decentralized appchain solution for Bitsocial apps.
Decentralize all social media
With multiple public RPCs competing with each other to provide profile nodes and optional feed algorithms, and with Bitsocial Network enabling content monetization without banks seizing funds, Bitsocial apps will be able to rival all kinds of social media, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube.
Social media finally finds its equilibrium: a fully decentralized, peer-to-peer network that nobody owns; Bitsocial.
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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.