How Can We Detach Users from CENTRALIZED Social Media?

How do we detach users from centralized Social Media

Wednesday 8L

Convener: Matt Vogel (@yadablokchain) (yadacoin.io)

Notes-taker(s): Cameron Boozarjomehri (@cboozar)

Tags for the session – technology discussed/ideas considered:

Social Media

Decentralized Technology

Decentralized Identity

Identity vs Pseudo Anonimity

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

• What is “Social media” Beyond the great data powerhouse (Facebook, twitter, etc)
  • A space for interaction and sharing that is as close to real world interaction as possible
  • This includes the opportunity to interact “without identity” that we don’t always know or need to know whose we are talking to
  • The need to move away from algorithms for something more “organic”
  • Penetrating “Walled gardens” for a distributed share everywhere ecosystem
    • Comparison of most natural to most curated (In Person -> Text -> email -> Facebook)
    • It is important to understand there is a “cost” to sharing
      • Social costs
      • Economic costs
      • Interaction & attention
• What is “Decentralized Social Media”?
  • Moving away from centralized content moderation to a more adhoc community approach
  • Moving toward freely shared content and “organic engagement”
• Moderation should be incentivized by the community in a bottom up approach
• Control of the interface and what is displayed should be a conversation between the individual and the organization
  • Social media moderation impacts how we experience
  • Context is critical to how a platform operates
    • Transparency is a product of an understood context
    • You must make it clear to any user why they are seeing what they are seeing either through notification or controls (both of which must be accessible)
    • Empower users by giving them control over how they consume content so that context becomes explicit