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2link: https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks
3tags:
4 - article
5 - dweb
6published: 2022-01-11
7author:
8 - Varun Srinivasan
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10This is the high level outline of [[Farcaster]] by co-founder of [[Warpcast]] [[Varun Srinivasan]].
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12> Every year, centralized social networks place more restrictions on what users and developers can do. They seem to believe that limiting choices is the path to a healthy network, while the opposite is probably true. A decentralized social network can challenge this hypothesis by making two powerful promises that centralized networks cannot. They can guarantee that users own a direct relationship with their audience and that developers can always build apps on the network.
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14> Centralized social networks influence every aspect of our lives, and their shortcomings are painfully clear. Improvements in cryptography and blockchains have provided workable solutions to achieve sufficient decentralization. We have a reasonable way to build a decentralized name registry, a hybrid off-chain/on-chain architecture to scale the network, and interesting new social primitives to build on.