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Is SocialFi the next crypto trend?  Anonymous Mon, Mar 18, 2024 11:06:04 No.58050741  [Reply] [Original]

Definition: SocialFi are decentralized social medias hosted either on the blockchain, IPFS or other peer 2 peer technology.
Theory: In the age of technocratic authoritarianism SocialFi will experience increasing demand as the masses seek to discuss censored economic, political and social issues.
First there was BTC (decentralized store of value), then there was Eth (smart contracting or programmable money), then there was stinky linky (decentralized data or oracles).
The next trend could be SocialFi or cryptographically owned, peer 2 peer, public socials which gives the user ownership of their social media account.

What are the best SocialFi projects?
When I look at projects like "theta" or "decentralized social" or "farcaster" the issue I can identify is that they all have centralized DNS. This means its not infinitely scalable, affordable to run or resistant.
Very few project don't have centralized DNS.
One SocialFi project that doesn't have centralized https endpoints or ssl is plebbit. It's also purely p2p, opensource and free to use. Interesting project desu. The demo is slow but as it gets optimized and more seed it will get faster.
What other better projects are better? Or will plebbit have first movers advantage for no https or no ssl social media?