Is Decentralized Social Media the Way Forward?
People are losing trust in social media. After many instances like the election debacle with Cambridge Analytica and accusations of social media apps allegedly over tracking their users activities online. More than a third of users say they no longer trust social platforms with their data. Another subset people will never forgive the benevolent algorithms pushing certain agendas that, no matter your proclivities, you must abide by those rules to be accepted “socially”. What’s more, the biggest centralized platforms are making billions off of that very same user data. Could the decentralization of social media restore trust & balance? Can we make social media great again?
The Growing Need For Something New
Social media has been slowly reaching an inflexion point. What once started as a way for people to stay connected, share content, and spark conversations, has turned into a game of censorship and control. And, as the old saying goes: “The house always wins” well we constructed & meticulously crafted a new one.
Just recently, China removed thousands of social media accounts of bloggers, influencers, and celebrities that it deemed “immoral.” Big centralized platforms are notorious for imposing bans on comments that “go against community standards”, we are beginning to see too much of that in the west.
News outlets receive repercussions just for reporting the news. And even the former President of the United States has been silenced on mainstream centralized social platforms, granted he may or may not have incited heated behavior but in no way is that a reason to completely silence a man.
Many influencers have had their lives taken away because of frivolous things, sometimes it only take one baseless accusation, strike and finally cancel culture, to lose it all. Influencers need the freedom to do & say as they please as long as their fans, provided that they’re old enough to make their own decisions, enjoy what they’re consuming.
Meanwhile, social platforms keep a firm grip over their users through questionable means. It’s becoming harder and harder to grow an account without a “pay to play” approach. There’s also a general belief that algorithms favour certain groups and shadow ban others, which severely limits your earnings, if your influence is your primary source of income.
There are too many influencers from macro to micro that lived through this tragic pandemic. Today’s social media landscape puts free speech and equality, on the internet at least, at risk, and will continue doing so until a better social platform breaks the pattern.
What Does Decentralized Social Media Look Like?
For too long, users have been contributing to social media’s bottom lines with little say or control over their own content and data. The Blockchain, Decentralization & WEB3 has the power to change that by putting control & ownership back into the hands of the users.
Taking a page from the shared economy playbook, Ari allows users and content creators to run the platform & share the revenue in a very creative & lucrative manner. Those who use it to consume content have more control over their experiences. And those who contribute their content (and time and effort) share in the revenue generated by its users.
Ari is the web3 version of all your favourite centralized social platforms put into one decentralized autonomous organization, as all “social media” apps should. Our platform actually welcomes everyone, no matter what opinions you may have in the content you create. We think that all users are responsible for their audience. Finally based on the value provided by users & creators alike, all must be remunerated accordingly.
Here is a short list of the top features in our DAPPs:
⁃ Governance structure
⁃ Deflationary token & Defi
⁃ PPV, subscription & fan clubs
⁃ Short, medium & long form content
⁃ Streaming
⁃ Multifaceted marketplace
⁃ Fiat & crypto payment processing
⁃ A Creator Dashboard
⁃ 0% fees*
⁃ Community funds
The $ARI token is a deflationary token that works like so:
⁃ Tax fee: 4% redistribution of fees to holders
⁃ Burn fee: 4% of transactions get destroyed in burn address
⁃ DAO Fund: 1% transaction fee goes to the fund of the organization
⁃ Liquidity fee: 1% goes to the liquidity to help hold the price as high as possible, to make sure the token isn’t as volatile as most other tokens
What separates Ari from the rest?
The problem with social media nowadays is that it has undeniably become less and less social, most of our interactions are more and more detached to the human element that made the concept so great. One of the founders said “We believe that creators should never be limited by anything else but the law when it comes to creating content & the audience needs to voice their opinions about the content they watch in a none intrusive but fair way. These days it seems that we can no longer express ourselves fully without being de-platformed or censored”. Ari puts the power & equity where it belongs, in the hands of the creators and the fans because that’s how culture moves forward, artistic freedom & freedom of choice is big theme at our DAO.
In this new era of NFTs, cryptocurrencies, the Metaverse and the growing resistance to censorship, digital ownership & digital responsibility is the future of the internet — and Ari is leading the charge by giving the world all the tools it will need as well as a utility deflationary token that will fuel this new revolution and will help improve our social transactions on the internet.
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