• Yesterday, after a long delay, the social network Voice was launched.
• Similar to Reddit, users will be rewarded for high quality content.

The beta version of the social media platform Voice was launched in February of this year. The founders of Voice describe the project as a secure and decentralized alternative to the best like Facebook and other networks like Reddit and Twitter. After a long delay and some teething problems, Voice was officially launched yesterday.

Voice website now available to all users

The company announced in a message yesterday that the platform can now be tested by all users. However, only members invited to join testers can post content and interact with other users. These restrictions will remain in effect until August 15, 2020, until all beta testing is finally completed.

Voice CEO Salah Michael Zalatimo was optimistic and described how Voice wanted to give people back control of their data and offer a decentralized, uncensored alternative to Facebook. In his opinion, many other social networks are corrupt and are subject to the opinion of many governments around the world that it is time to offer an alternative:

This global moment fully exposed the corrupt social spaces created by Big Tech. It's time to break away and put humans first. We need your help. It is time for the social as it should be.

Users of the new platform will be rewarded with the voice token if they post high-quality content and the contributions are gelled, commented and recognized as valuable. The platform is supported by the same company that has raised around $ 4 billion in the world's largest ICO to date, developing and launching the cryptocurrency EOS .

Initially, Voice was scheduled to launch in June 2019, but due to some hurdles, there was a delay. In March of this year, Block.one provided a cash injection of $ 150 million to finally make the launch a reality. Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one, says he will hand over leadership to CEO Salah Michael Zalatimo to make Voice an independent business.

Voice joins a long list of new companies that want to offer users the greatest freedom of expression and censorship possible through decentralization. Other alternatives to Facebook include the SOCIETY2 social network, based on the IOTA Tangle.

Reddit experiences with Ethereum

A few weeks ago, Reddit also launched a new experience in which users are rewarded for high-quality content. Two tokens based on the Ethereum Blockchain are issued and distributed to users (freely translated):

Every four weeks, Reddit will publish a list of how much karma each user has earned in the community during this period, as a proposed score for their contribution. After that, the community has a week to review the list and suggest changes, if they wish.