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a blockchain social network? Someone has to have done this already and then abandoned it because it failed to thrive.
by fatdog 10y ago
a blockchain social network?
Someone has to have done this already and then abandoned it because it failed to thrive.
- vertex-four 10y agoNot really. All the low-level pieces simply don't exist as usable code yet - yes, you can pay money in a convoluted way (compared to buying almost anything else) to have a piece of data added to a globally distributed ordered list, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to build every piece of interaction on the network on top of that system. "Pay 5 cents to send a tweet!" You also need a decentralized publish/subscribe system and a useful decentralized search system, both resistant to attacks. The former has some good solutions buried in people's PhDs, the latter not so much. Then you need a lot of UX research and people working on the low-level protocol, high-level domain logic, and the UI. It'd be a project on the scale of one of the largest open-source projects currently in existence, IMHO.