Social networks have been substantially growing much more anytime before ( for example: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many more ), but unfortunately you cant miss the part where they exploit thier users ( content creators/viewers), by offering unfair bargin they use the content created by users and builds a huge database, and offers different kind of services like (ranked listing, search inquires, connecting persons, advertising and many more), their creators benefit a substantial amount of fortunes,without allowing to content creators earn a dime through their original content, which lead to a logical public request to build decentralized social network, with the following properties: a) open source software to ensure transparency b) distributed network of nodes among users c) trust-less protocols with novel algorithms ensuring fair content ranking, but its not that simple because these type of projects unless it rapidly build a sustainable huge network or it collapse on itself, as many social networks collapses whether its centralized or not, its a kind of races where network creators have to satisfy users and voters needs with efficient and scalable platform before the network collapses on its self, The problem with centralized social media platforms that they ask users to uplode their content and releasing ownership and control of their content without the right to benefit from their content, as a result a lot of questions raised regarding ownership, control and exploitation of content from both parts users and social network owners and how to overcome the current situation.
How we can generalize a dApp that represents a fair trade off between content creators and content network? What are the minimum requirements to build a decentralized social media network?
the pillars of the new decentralized social networks:
1- the applicability of friend listing and social private community creation/operation.
2- respecting user’s control over their content.
3- allowing voters to participate commenting, tagging, disliking, beside being rewarded for.
4- the network database offers queries building with high quality for searching purposes.
5- secret content sharing and allowing private content to be replicated across the network privately.
6- Meta-services: such as news channels feeds, gaming on-line consoles, and even advertised goods and services
The key to that kind of Utopian social networks is to provide a network as much decentralized as it can be, that will be a great aspect of its sustainability
the public need behind social media networks market is a very interesting social phenomena, that people show a great desire sharing theirs content besides viewing others content and reacting towards it, making friends and being members of specialized community sharing the same interest, so the quest for social networks will never stop.