The moral imperative of a distributed social layer

If you think about it though, the one piece of core Web 2 infrastructure where the blockchain is actually the most natural way to engineer things is … attribution. What else is a company like Branch Metrics (my former employer) or the internal attribution system at giants like Facebook, but a large, distributed, semi-private ledger of online events... See more

Some believe that decentralization requires the entire social network to be on a blockchain. This is unnecessary and even undesirable. Social networks generate petabytes of data every year, which can be very expensive to store on-chain. Blockchains also make it difficult to delete data forever, which is a desirable feature for users. A network desi... See more

The bottom line: Moving identity on-chain, and thereby removing the possibility of users-table-centric network effects, completely up-ends the entire landscape of API-based, access-controlled interoperability that the present Internet is built on. All of the non-technical market and political dynamics around users table size, leverage, and risk sud... See more

NFTs aren’t a social network in the traditional sense. There isn’t a NFT, Inc. They don’t have a home, one place where every NFT owner congregates and NFT, Inc. aggregates. Maybe OpenSea does it? Maybe it’s something like blockchain games/virtual worlds like CryptoVoxels, Decentraland, or The Sandbox. Maybe someone builds a pseudonymous social netw... See more

Technology -> An alternate stack that is decentralized, censorship proof with financial incentives baked in.