Open Source Content is the future of user-generated content

What if the next generation of user-generated content—for the next generation of the internet—is user-owned content? UOC, perhaps 🤔 The crowd not only creates the content, but owns it, sharing in economic upside all orchestrated by blockchain. In this future, a platform to power UOC would be massive.

In the end, TikTok’s biggest legacy might be less about its current moment of world-conquering success, which will pass, and more about how, by forcing social-media giants like Facebook to chase its model, it will end up liberating the social Internet.

opening assets is just one part of a broader goal to enable and nurture creative communities. And that this perspective gives a different way of viewing the largest digital platforms, and a more targeted response to their dominance.

With TikTok, the fact that it’s a new network is actually a feature, not a bug. There is an inherent conflict in the goals of creators for the different formats, and this tension is I think keeping a lot of people from posting to Reels.

audiences have never had more power in distribution or creativity: we’ve seen TikTok’s algorithm expand who can achieve fame; Twitch’s livestreams reinvent parasocial connection; and companies like HQ Trivia pioneer new forms of interactive media. But audiences have no ownership or upside. Mad Realities hopes to change that.

New Media breaks out of existing platform boxes . Instead of optimizing for the algorithm, it empowers us to express our work in ways that feel true to us and our deepest intentions.