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7 Ways Blockchain Social Media Platforms Are Better

25 Sep 2019 3 minute read 19 comments Scott Cunningham

There are many ways that most true blockchain integrated social media platforms are better than traditional legacy platforms. Some platforms have all these benefits and some only have a few. The main benefits are transparency, decentralization, monet...

Junto: Decentralized Social Media Platform

13 Sep 2019 3 minute read 2 comments Yasin

"This article is written by RaiTurk in Turkish. Here is the original article: http://www.raiturk.com/junto-nedir-holochain/ The permission to publish it here is obtained from him."   What is Junto? Almost every product was created to solve a problem...

Predictive Behavioral Ads Take Away Our Uniqueness

13 Sep 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Scott Cunningham

You are talking about something with a friend and not five minutes later you see an ad about that niche thing you were saying. Is your phone listening to you? No, it's more likely to be predictive advertising.   Predictive advertising uses advanced a...

Could Hiding Metrics On Social Media Be A Way To Censor You?

12 Sep 2019 1 minute read 1 comment Scott Cunningham

We've seen Instagram hide likes, will other platforms follow and what precedent will this set for their capacity to censor content? It is released under the guise of combating social media addiction which I wholeheartedly support, but what concerns m...

Charity or necessary?

8 Sep 2019 2 minute read 6 comments Wakeupkitty

I host two contest on Steemit to help people grow. Steemit is a social media (platform) on the blockchain. The little redfish in the first place. They need to grow to have more power. Without power, they cannot post or comment. A ridiculous system fo...

Why I Try Not To Bother With Legacy Platforms

6 Sep 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Scott Cunningham

I've been using old legacy platforms less and less for many reasons and using blockchain and alternative platforms more and more. Whether it's censorship, lack of transparency, lack of privacy, demonetization, monetization restrictions, bias moderati...

What Was The Point Of Social Media?

5 Sep 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Scott Cunningham

The point of social media was to connect us and allow us to explore different ideas and seek out the truth on our own without relying on mainstream news to tell us what to believe and how we should perceive the world. Today that isn't what we have a...

Comprehensive EOS Social Platforms Review

4 Sep 2019 5 minute read 15 comments Scott Cunningham

In this review, I went over all the EOS social platforms I could find that had at least 100 active users or had some recognition of EOS dapp listing sites, etc. I only comprehensively test and review sites that have at least 1,000 active users if the...

Another Big Privacy Fine for Social Media Violations

1 Sep 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

YouTube, owned by Google, will pay upwards of $200 million in fines for violating children's online privacy laws.  This is just the latest in a number of privacy-related settlements and fines that various social media companies have been paying in t...

Belacam’s New Storefront

31 Aug 2019 2 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman

Every good crypto-based platform needs some internal uses for their token. Belacam just added another use for BELA with their storefront. One of the problems with so many cryptoassets in the world is that they were created for the sole purpose of f...