How to decentralize social media—a brief sketch
...The one-two punch here is the combination of points (1) and (4): First, we get behind decentralized social media standards and protocols, and then we use those standards when building plugins that let our friends, who are still using Facebook and Twitter (etc.), see posts that we put on [other] websites...
#decentralizedWeb #socialMedia #socialNetworking
https://larrysanger.org/2019/02/how-to-decentralize-social-media-a-brief-sketch/
...The one-two punch here is the combination of points (1) and (4): First, we get behind decentralized social media standards and protocols, and then we use those standards when building plugins that let our friends, who are still using Facebook and Twitter (etc.), see posts that we put on [other] websites...
#decentralizedWeb #socialMedia #socialNetworking
https://larrysanger.org/2019/02/how-to-decentralize-social-media-a-brief-sketch/
Heh. Blockchain.
ReplyDeleteAlready happening in Friendica.
ReplyDeleteDrew McCarthy that’s because he thinks “blockchain==distributed”.
ReplyDeleteThoughtful, but I don’t think 4 is achievable. The landscape is resolving into a complex anti-trust problem.
ReplyDeleteDrew McCarthy "Blockchain technology—the technology of decentralization—is perfect for this, but not strictly necessary."
ReplyDeleteMerckle tree hash chains can be useful and are part of several related technologies: git, IPFS, and Scuttlebutt, for example.
Edward Morbius Ain't nothin' perfect for nothin', and you can quote me on that. Trust me, I went to Engineering School.
ReplyDeleteRelated: If I had a Bitcoin for every *Fascinating Future Technology That Will Solve All Problems Real Soon Now... I'd have a lot of Bitcoins. Until I didn't.