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How hard would it be to allow users on a server to sell their own personal data from a federated social network with both the server admin and some central auth
by disease 9y ago
How hard would it be to allow users on a server to sell their own personal data from a federated social network with both the server admin and some central authority taking a cut?
I feel safe in saying that users being able to sell their own data for their profit, instead of Facebook's, would get people to jump ship.
- mxuribe 9y agoYours is a very novel, clever idea! Being a fan of decentralized platforms, i sort of hope that these platforms get their UI, set, etc. designed in so simple a way in the future, as to allow (non-techies) to manage their own future...but what i forget to think about is not the "how", but the "why"...Your idea certainly offers a good motivator for enticing people to hop on the decentralization train, and legitimately be in control of their own data. Thanks for sharing!!
- disease 9y agoThanks, but there's nothing novel about it. It's a recurring theme in technology (computing in particular) where something is invented, delivers short-term profit to a small group of people, and then becomes standardized in some way that allows a greater, long-term benefit to a broader audience. I'm sure some economist somewhere has even come up with a clever name for this. Obviously the model I describe will not generate Facebook-scale wealth for any individual player, but I believe there is still good money to be made in addition to the positive externalities that come from standardization and decentralization.