BitClout founder ‘Diamondhands’ reveals himself and explains why social media as we know it is dead

A social network like Path attempted to limit your social graph size to the Dunbar number, capping your social capital accumulation potential and capping the distribution of your posts. The exchange, they hoped, was some greater transparency, more genuine self-expression. The anti-Facebook. Unfortunately, as social capital theory might predict, Pat... See more

step three is to get off Twitter all together, and start building a decentralized media ecosystem that combines the sovereignty of individual domain names with the community of social networking. The v1 of that is a simple joint RSS feed that aggregates multiple independent newsletters, but we can get much more sophisticated with tech for the decen... See more

"Like Bitcoin, BitClout is a fully open-source project and there is no company behind it--it’s just coins and code". For something relating to people's identities, there SHOULD be responsibility there. There is a place for decentralization, but it is not with other people’s non-anonymous identities.