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🌉 A bridge between decentralized social network protocols
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Support DSNP #712

Open snarfed opened 1 year ago

snarfed commented 1 year ago

To oversimplify, DSNP (Decentralized Social Networking Protocol) looks like DIDs + ActivityStreams 2 on top of blockchain, specifically the Frequency "parachain." It's afaict the one technical/product project under the Project Liberty umbrella, an advocacy organization for improving social media.

MeWe (Wikipedia), a lesser known social network silo, looks like the one meaningful implementation so far, even if that implementation is still in progress and slow based on their recent notes. MeWe claimed 20M total users in Sept 2023; no clue what fraction of those are actually active. Frank McCourt (the Project Liberty founder) evidently led MeWe's most recent round of funding, which is probably why they're adopting DSNP.

Developer mindshare seems low. The decentralized social network space pays more attention to ActivityPub, Bluesky/ATProto, and Nostr. Web3 is...I dunno, all over the place, but doesn't seem particularly focused on DSNP.

snarfed commented 10 months ago

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeWe :

MeWe's practice of creating accounts on behalf of users and businesses who were not users of the site may have served to inflate the amount of activity on the platform. https://mashable.com/article/what-is-mewe-network-explainer/ ... MeWe gained popularity in Hong Kong in November 2020, with users migrating from Facebook due to concerns with possible pro-China censorship and moderation.