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124 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin 16 Jul 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried thinking out loud about federated social media, in a Twitter thread. The part about social media starts at #30:

  1. Let’s say that, instead, we put messages on a blockchain.


So if you used Blockchain-Twitter (BT):

--You type the message in BT’s interface
--BT posts the message on a public blockchain
--Your friend pulls out Blockchain-Facebook (BF)
--BF reads your message and displays it

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1548292829968887816
https://nitter.it/SBF_FTX/status/1548292829968887816 <-- Shows the thread in a single, easy-to-read, web page

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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 16 Jul 2022

It doesn't need a blockchain. Blockchain's utility is decentralized, global consensus of event ordering.

I don't see why you'd need that for social media. What you need is something more like a relay system, i.e. a large, permissive mempool-like system. That is, not strict consensus, merely high availability and discovery.

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