Crypto-based Decentralized Social Networks Are Coming
Twitter has purged QAnon users, Facebook has joined other social networks in banning Donald Trump, and even the alternatively branded Discord has removed the servers for WallStreetBets.
These social media companies—and the handful of people who run them—have real power over which voices get amplified and which ones get relegated to the margins.
Yale Computer Science Professor David Gelernter, who serves as Chief Visionary Officer for an upstart blockchain company called Revolution Populi, said people have a message for the social media tycoons: “Butt out.”
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“We believe that this solution...will basically be the beginning of the end of that and allow hundreds or thousands of data-centered apps, especially social nets, where users can use any one of them at any time and if they don't like it they clip it, and all their data is portable to another one.”
Twitter has purged QAnon users, Facebook has joined other social networks in banning Donald Trump, and even the alternatively branded Discord has removed the servers for WallStreetBets.
These social media companies—and the handful of people who run them—have real power over which voices get amplified and which ones get relegated to the margins.
Yale Computer Science Professor David Gelernter, who serves as Chief Visionary Officer for an upstart blockchain company called Revolution Populi, said people have a message for the social media tycoons: “Butt out.”
Crypto-based Decentralized Social Networks Are Coming - Decrypt
RevPop today launched its test network—a blockchain aimed at providing fertile soil for competing social networks that protect data.
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“We believe that this solution...will basically be the beginning of the end of that and allow hundreds or thousands of data-centered apps, especially social nets, where users can use any one of them at any time and if they don't like it they clip it, and all their data is portable to another one.”
