Hello Hussein,

There's a solution in DeSo. Decentralised Social ensures there are several independent layers for every social media platform. 

When Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus and Whatsapp were down, the idea of a blockchain dedicated to decentralizing social media and avoiding exactly the kind of service outages that centralized organizations invite, became more relevant.

DeSo is a Layer-1 blockchain built to decentralize social media applications at scale. A token supporting BitClout, the crypto social network that allows each creator to have their own tokens that can be bought and sold by followers is also needed.

DeSo will decentralize the normally centralized data collected by social media applications. It puts content and intellectual property ownership back into the hands of creators on social. It creates a way for creators to have direct relationships with followers without intermediaries, unlocking new ways to engage and monetize audiences without ads.

So cases of social media companies prioritising growth over safety will be unheard of in DeSo. It also comes with better private data protection measures.

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, 07:52 Ali Hussein via KICTANet, <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers

This has not been a good week for Facebook.

From the massive downtime to the #facebookwhistleblower saga.

I'm just wondering aloud...

1. .Is it time for society to take a hard look at itself?
2. Are we hating on #Socialmedia too much? Is this an easy way out?
3. Where's the middle ground? Is there one?
4. Sometimes I get this feeling that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.... Didn't these guys ban a whole President? We clamoured for it and when they did we then accused them of overreaching.

What's the solution? Who's ultimately responsible for our behaviors on Social Media?

I suspect there's no easy answer to this. However, we must start this process. I suspect however, that a wholesale blame game against them is not the answer we are seeking.


Ali Hussein

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