<div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Hello Hussein,</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">There's a solution in DeSo. Decentralised Social ensures there are several independent layers for every social media platform. </div></div><div><br></div><div>When Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Oculus and Whatsapp were down, the idea of a blockchain dedicated to decentralizing social media and avoiding exactly the kind of service outages that centralized organizations invite, became more relevant.</div><div><br></div><div>DeSo is a Layer-1 blockchain built to decentralize social media applications at scale. A token supporting BitClout, the crypto social network that allows each creator to have their own tokens that can be bought and sold by followers is also needed.</div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div>DeSo will decentralize the normally centralized data collected by social media applications. It puts content and intellectual property ownership back into the hands of creators on social. It creates a way for creators to have direct relationships with followers without intermediaries, unlocking new ways to engage and monetize audiences without ads.</div><div><br></div><div>So cases of social media companies prioritising growth over safety will be unheard of in DeSo. It also comes with better private data protection measures.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, 07:52 Ali Hussein via KICTANet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Listers</p><p dir="ltr">This has not been a good week for Facebook.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">From the massive downtime to the <b>#facebookwhistleblower</b> saga. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm just wondering aloud...</p>
<p dir="ltr">1. .Is it time for society to take a hard look at itself? <br>
2. Are we hating on <b>#Socialmedia</b> too much? Is this an easy way out? <br>
3. Where's the middle ground? Is there one? <br>
4. Sometimes I get this feeling that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.... Didn't these guys ban a whole President? We clamoured for it and when they did we then accused them of overreaching. </p>
<p dir="ltr">What's the solution? Who's ultimately responsible for our behaviors on Social Media? </p>
<p dir="ltr">I suspect there's no easy answer to this. However, we must start this process. I suspect however, that a wholesale blame game against them is not the answer we are seeking.<br>
</p><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ali Hussein<br><br>Tel: +254 713 601113<br>Twitter: @AliHKassim<br>Skype: abu-jomo<br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a><br><br><br><br> </div></div>
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