Decentralized Social Networking Protocol
= "We believe that a public social graph completely disconnected from financial incentives is the first essential piece of infrastructure required to unlock the true potential of social networks for collaboration and to dismantle the surveillance economy". [1]
Description
Braxton Woodham:
"In development for nearly three years and with an end-to-end proof of concept complete, the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) builds on top of TCP/IP and HTTPS to facilitate a secure, open source, universally accessible social graph that is not linked to any financial incentives by crypto tokens or private company database servers. The decoupling of financial incentives from the core protocol is a key distinction of DSNP from all other blockchain-based social networking projects that we've seen, and we believe this is essential to support a healthier third generation of the web.
This new infrastructure has the potential to free the entire web of human online social activity from private company control and unlock a path for vibrant innovation from diverse contributors. Unlike federated or peer-to-peer social networks, social networks built from this universal, global social graph will allow people to interact with friends, family, creators, and public figures wherever they are, using any application they choose. And, as Masnick describes in his paper, when social networking is an open ecosystem built on a shared protocol, developers can innovate without fear of being shut out by a single powerful platform. This creates a “laboratory of the real world” in which “anyone could present a new interface, new features, or better moderation,” with open standards resulting in more innovation, competition for new business models, and value for users.
This protocol sits at the intersection of three key domains: Self-Sovereign Identity, Personal Data Privacy, and Public Social Media. Much like the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) doesn't address all the implementation details of email servers (such as mail storage and security), DSNP isn't intended to address all the implementation details of specific technical domains such as media storage and streaming functionality for social media videos."