How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalitarianism (2014)

Re:How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalit... by abhishekjha on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:31PM (#16632292)

> social networks combined with "Blockchain Technology,"

I don't get the use case properly. Is it the trust issue? How can a distributed voting system fix it? And also, wouldn't that require a lot of processing power?

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Re:How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalit... by kromem on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:01PM (#16632615)

It's basically what Secure Scuttlebutt is doing.

Basically, if you have a cryptographic write only log of social activity, and can exchange that with others, you can create social activity/interactions that are only readable by your social graph (as it should be), and not by third parties/providers.

It's a really, really neat concept (in the vein of the awesome stuff happening with distributed cryptographic consensus in general), and simply needs easier entry points for mass adoption.

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