Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks

Decentralization adds new functionality in other domains, but when it comes to scale, we’re aiming to replicate the global experience Twitter currently offers. Existing decentralized social protocols default to local conversations because it’s a natural fit for a decentralized architecture, but our goal is to make global conversations possible whil... See more

The success of these systems will depend on their ability to deliver the actual benefits of decentralization, including more equitable ownership among stakeholders, reduced censorship, and greater diversity.

In fact, these types of networks may be good candidates for progressive decentralization, i.e. build a network the usual way first and introduce tokens for community ownership, governance, and/or rewards later.

step three is to get off Twitter all together, and start building a decentralized media ecosystem that combines the sovereignty of individual domain names with the community of social networking. The v1 of that is a simple joint RSS feed that aggregates multiple independent newsletters, but we can get much more sophisticated with tech for the decen... See more