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Part of my social media thesis, Farcaster, et al. and why it must be decentralized, is due to how the internet will become a hyper-social. environment. For example, we should be able to become social on/off around activities, topics, and locations. Right now, online social predominantly happens on location, IG, Twitter, etc, and then subsets into topics, driven by activity inside these locations. Humans, for several generations, have the behavior of restructuring that order, topics, activity, location. It’s this behavior of rearranging the structure of being social that is still missing online. Farcaster’s FIP-2 was a step in the right direction but adoption lacks because it’s still hindered by Warpcast, or clients that need location first adoption. I’m not sure what breaks us out, but I do think the right path is the ability to LEGO the social chain. Which comes from decentralization somehow.

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Seriously, this is so freaking cool!!! I am so jealous…please send/tag me if you have updates on this. Q below

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@les I have deliberated on ‘decentralized social’ for months. In case this helps, here are questions sprung from your original post, which Id love to see analyses on. “I do think the right path is the ability to LEGO the social chain.” 2 questions..Which parts are you implying to be modifiable? What level of decentralization do you imply? logical decentralization: - The platform that presents the data (apps,.., ex. censor this post, use this code) - The data itself (i.e nosql vs sql, ex. different formats possible) architectural decentralization - sharing for data… what quantities sufficiently “decentralized”. 20 places of redundancy? 3? 10? 50? Should ALL data be immutable? Do fees naturally rise because server providers are responsible for holding the entire history? AKA young generation takes on burden to maintain history of old.

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Are you familiar with Farcaster?

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Ok. A rude response happy new years mate

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Oh no! Didn’t mean for it to be rude. Apologies. Was a serious question. They are building at the center of all your questions.

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bleh. You are writing a thesis on decentralizing social, yet you don’t want to talk about what that actually means. Only that ‘this group is doing it this certain way, and they are considering/answering all your questions’ Guess i’ll just pull out my bag of popcorn and be a complacent observer. I’m confused tbh on why you’re doing this, and now, what the hell your thesis is even about. I like talking about the higher level problems, and assumed that’s what your thesis was likely about.

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