can social network run on decentralization

[dupee419]

It's more intended for private transactions or for businesses that demands maximum privacy, as you can see, social media platforms like Facebook Messenger, Instagram, etc. already contains features that actually provides security for your data and for your conversations (vanish mode on instagram, secret conversations on Facebook) having a decentralized social network sure sounds like a good idea, but it doesn't alone gives you the green light to be careless, sensitive data is attractive to hackers, and they'll do anything to get that, so we should still be aware.

[coupable]

Generally, it's a great idea to see social networks running on decentralization, we already have the example of steemit network. However, it won't ever happened with facebook because it's a centralised company who generates income from the users data (i don't expect this to happen sooner or later). From another side, in a social platform we need to check and control data before being published for public and this is amost impossible in a decentralised network .

Am yet to get the correlation between the network outage and the spiking of Bitcoin on bullish run from $47k to $49k,

A butterfly effect maybe !
If two things occur at the same time, it doesn't necessarly mean they are correlated .

[pooya87]

Generally, it's a great idea to see social networks running on decentralization, we already have the example of steemit network.

Steemit is not a social media network. It is an altcoin like any other altcoin. The "social media" part is a 100% centralized website owned and fully controlled by yet another US company where people can post just like they would on any other website like Facebook! Then they create a centralized link between the content and the "account" on Steem blockchain!

[ABCbits]

Not every single thing should be decentralized, if you just need social network/media which have downtime, you could use distributed social network/media such as Matrix.

Generally, it's a great idea to see social networks running on decentralization, we already have the example of steemit network.

Steemit is not a social media network. It is an altcoin like any other altcoin. The "social media" part is a 100% centralized website owned and fully controlled by yet another US company where people can post just like they would on any other website like Facebook! Then they create a centralized link between the content and the "account" on Steem blockchain!

Don't forget the hostile takeover, https://cryptonews.net/en/news/altcoins/289900/.

[bL4nkcode]

There are already, like peepeth, a twitter like social network that runs on eth blockchain. It cost to make a posts, same like blockchain's features it can be edited or deleted, no ads as well.

Decentralized social network can't fix what mark's website experienced, every website is prone to downtime, particularly if their servers experienced problems.

[bL4nkcode]

Are you sure the content could be edited/deleted? The website say otherwise.

My apologies, I didn't notice it, but it's a typo, it should be can't/cannot that is why I mentioned that it has a similar feature(s) to the blockchain.

[mk4]

Sounds really good in the surface— a social media site without censorship? Count me in! But there are just so so many flaws if you think about it more deeply; both technically in the back end(blockchains are slow and clunky) and in the social layer(how do we stop people from posting CP and such?).

[perfect999]

Suggestions were been made on operating the social media on a decentralized network on block chain which is said to totally avoid any break in transmission as the Mark Zuckerberg's four most influential social media network (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and messenger) is down for the second time this year.

Am yet to get the correlation between the network outage and the spiking of Bitcoin on bullish run from $47k to $49k, secondly could it be possible if Mark Zuckerberg will truly adhere to suggestive motions to run on a decentralized network on block chain.Bitcoin moves past $49K as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp go down

I don’t think that the price of Bitcoin going up has anything to do with um Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram a messenger shutting down yesterday. Because I can’t see how these things can relate to each other, so I think the price of Bitcoin just went up on its own. Then as for having a social media on a decentralized network, maybe it is possible, but then I think it’s going to be totally different from the type of social media that we all know now.

If it’s going to be a decentralized network type of social media, then I think there are not going to be rules and they won’t  be anyone to enforce any type of rules on social media that is decentralized, people will feel free to do as it pleases. It's just going to be totally different from the regular social media.