Farcaster: Fixing What’s Broken in Social Media
Thousands of early adopters and public figures are
using Farcaster to free themselves from corporate
control, censorship, and misinformation.
One of social media’s greatest features—that it allows people to
communicate with a huge network of other people—often leads
to one of its worst: It creates corporate monopolies.
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn attracted billions of users by
creating virtual arenas where people could meet and share ideas
at an unprecedented scale with friends and followers. There’s a
big cost to this, though. Everything you create—your profile, your
followers, your posts, your history—is their property. That means
they can do an awful lot with that data, like sell it, alter it, or shut
it down altogether.
They can also institute arbitrary new rules (an issue that has
exploded into the public consciousness in the past year after
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter). Or kill access to the platform’s
API to block out new developers or innovation.
This is their world; you and your community just live in it.
To get around this, you need a mechanism that lets people
preserve the powerful networking benefits of social media while
scrapping its Big Brother ownership. You can probably guess
that this mechanism is a decentralized blockchain. And one
company that has launched such a decentralized social network
is Farcaster.
