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This vision doesn't require blockchain whatsoever. Mastodon[0] is a successful decentralized social media without the use of blockchain. Because of federation,

by a2128 5y ago

This vision doesn't require blockchain whatsoever. Mastodon[0] is a successful decentralized social media without the use of blockchain. Because of federation, users can like and reply to posts from other instances, and other people will be able to see it. I can even follow a PeerTube channel and have recent videos show up in my feed, because of the ActivityPub federation protocol (a W3C standard). Best of all, it doesn't require the linking of a crypto wallet and the payment of cryptocurrency to interact with people. [0] https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/

TekMol 5y ago
Using Mastodon just shifts the power from Twitter to whoever runs the Mastodon instance you use. The Crypto wallet you use for Orbis can be a fresh, empty wallet. No need to put any cryptocurrency in it.
- a2128 5y ago
  I disagree about the power shift. Twitter holds a complete information monopoly over all its content. This means they can make hostile changes, such as forcing a login in order to view public content, without much repercussion. If Twitter were to ban me, I would be completely cut off from all of my friends on Twitter. You can't easily move away from Twitter, because Twitter is a huge entity with swaths of content and users already on it. On the other hand, Mastodon instances have only a fraction of that power. They have control over information only that is on their instance, in a world that contains thousands of such instances. They are tiny entities holding control over small fractions of the content available in the fediverse. If a Mastodon instance started acting hostile, people can relatively easily move away to a different instance. If my Mastodon instance were to ban me, I can sign up on a different instance (or host my own) and still keep in touch with my friends; unless my friends used the same instance and the owners broke federation with the instance I moved to, at which point a lot of people would probably want to move away from that hostile instance immediately.

by a2128 5y ago

TekMol 5y ago

Using Mastodon just shifts the power from Twitter to whoever runs the Mastodon instance you use. The Crypto wallet you use for Orbis can be a fresh, empty wallet. No need to put any cryptocurrency in it.

a2128 5y ago
I disagree about the power shift. Twitter holds a complete information monopoly over all its content. This means they can make hostile changes, such as forcing a login in order to view public content, without much repercussion. If Twitter were to ban me, I would be completely cut off from all of my friends on Twitter. You can't easily move away from Twitter, because Twitter is a huge entity with swaths of content and users already on it. On the other hand, Mastodon instances have only a fraction of that power. They have control over information only that is on their instance, in a world that contains thousands of such instances. They are tiny entities holding control over small fractions of the content available in the fediverse. If a Mastodon instance started acting hostile, people can relatively easily move away to a different instance. If my Mastodon instance were to ban me, I can sign up on a different instance (or host my own) and still keep in touch with my friends; unless my friends used the same instance and the owners broke federation with the instance I moved to, at which point a lot of people would probably want to move away from that hostile instance immediately.