What short sighted click bait. Steem has already solved or partially solved most of these problems and we haven't even scratched the service. Read the Steem white paper [1] if you want your mind blown. [1] https://steem.io
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Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
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Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#12The same could have been said 30 years ago for an open source OS.
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#13None of the reasons they give -- difficulty of user acquisition, conflict between security and convenience, curation, or economies of scale -- are fundamental obstacles to making a decentralized social network. Mastodon has found some success despite facing the same problems.
Mastodon is not successful by any metric compared with even the smallest social networks, let alone the giants
Where would you find these metrics? Looking at the federated timeline, I see posts appearing at a pretty fast rate (more than one per second), though most of them are in Japanese.
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#14What short sighted click bait. Steem has already solved or partially solved most of these problems and we haven't even scratched the service. Read the Steem white paper [1] if you want your mind blown. [1] https://steem.io
It's decentralized but needs:
- My Email Address
- My Phone Number
Not really the sort of decentralized I was hoping for..
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#15The same could have been said 30 years ago for an open source OS.
or that decentralized social network called 'email'.
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#16What short sighted click bait. Steem has already solved or partially solved most of these problems and we haven't even scratched the service. Read the Steem white paper [1] if you want your mind blown. [1] https://steem.io
Now if we could only solve the shilling problem on social networks. Your whitepaper blew my mind in trying to bootstrap YACC via the hook of a decentralized social network. I'd say odds of long-term success are zero here, but points for originality.
Please do some research before posting nonsense comments. Steemit is a pretty big community already, with a thriving ecosystem. Go to https://steemit.com/ to see for yourself. Steem is just the blockchain/cryptocurrency, while Steemit is the actual community front-end on top of it.
There's no shilling going on here. Just a user recommending it.
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#17Except in one sense, it already does.
I have some friends with blogs. Those blogs have RSS feeds. Feeds of "news", you might say.
I load up sageRSS in Firefox, see friends who have new content in bold, and get their news. A "news feed", you might even say.
Admittedly I can't easily use that to deduce that x is friends with y is friends with z, or (easily) get a map of where all of my friends went on vacation last year, but I kind of think that's a good thing.
Re: Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
#18What short sighted click bait. Steem has already solved or partially solved most of these problems and we haven't even scratched the service. Read the Steem white paper [1] if you want your mind blown. [1] https://steem.io
It's decentralized but needs: - My Email Address - My Phone Number Not really the sort of decentralized I was hoping for..
You can spin up a node or use a wallet to create an account directly on the Steem blockchain instead of doing it through the Steemit webpage.