RE: Decentralized Social Media vs Centralized Social Media – Which is the Future of Social Media?
I must admit that you chosed very interesting and quite challenging topic. Especially since decentralized social media is something brand new and it's hard to imaging where is it heading.
My impression is, that so far idea of decentralization is just an illusion. That each time important decisions are being made - only then we learn that community voice hardly matters. That often few so called "whales" working closely together are having power to make decisions. And "decentralization" allows them greatly to avoid being responsible for making wrong choices.
That's just my personal view. Bit gloom and doom hehe.
It cannot be taken down because it runs on the blockchain
Technicaly it can. Front-end may be shut down. And validators / node owners would be pressured by authorities to shut down their operation. And entire blockchain would be down. It's quite achievable. Unfortunatelly.
(that's just another small illusion that word "decentralization" brings).
Solid read. Upvote on the way :)
Cheers, Piotr
You have made really good points here...
One of the reasons why i think it will be almost impossible for contents that run on a decentralized blockchain to be taken down, even though technically it can be taken down, is that a blockchain that has thousands or millions of nodes in different countries and different parts of the world, would be impossible for a coordination to be in place to be pressured by authorities to shut down their operations. Because, the authorities would have to coordinate all the running nodes before it can even be possible. In some mechanisms, Even if the top nodes in major countries are pressured to shut down, the blockchain would still run because the nodes below the ranking would take over those shutdown positions. Nonetheless, the concept of decentralization is still in its early years and still has a long way to go to completely replace centralization when it comes to social media.
Thanks for your input