Reddit is shutting down its free API/third party client. We've been working on a fully P2P Reddit alternative that uses ENS for community names and usernames for 2 years.

This is the demo https://plebbitapp.eth.limo

Since all data is P2P, and the clients and protocols are all open source, it's not possible for anyone to "shut down the API"

We've received a $5000 grant from IPFS's Protocol Labs. We also received $6000 in a recent gitcoin grant and are currently applying for an ENS grant.

Our protocol is pure P2P, it doesn't use any central server, databases, public HTTP end point, DNS, etc. It uses parts of the IPFS and Ethereum stack to create everything it needs:

• IPFS for immutable data, like a published comment or a recent subplebbit page.
• IPNS for mutable data, like replies to a comment, upvote counts, new posts/comments published on a subplebbit, etc.
• Libp2p Gossipsub (also used by ETH2) for authors publishing comments/votes to a subplebbit and for the captcha challenge exchange between authors and subplebbits.
• ENS for usernames, community names, and serving the client in browsers.

We have a high level whitepaper on our github https://github.com/plebbit/whitepaper/discussions/2