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Stephen Downes

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Here's the gist: Decentralized Social (DeSo) "is a way of social networking built on open blockchain technology without a central authority that owns and operates the network, creating new opportunities for how we can use social media and giving more power to you, the user." This article describes the motivations for a web3 free of the limitations of existing social media networks that "are not portable nor composable and operate in closed ecosystems that do not talk to each other." It describes the Lens protocol "that is changing the nature of social media in Web3 by creating an open, decentralized, and composable social graph" and suggests "we can update the whole concept of what a community really is... and explore new ways to visualize, build, display, and interact with a social graph." The catch: you need to 'connect your wallet' in order to use it - a compatible wallet, that is. *sigh*

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