Social networks need global name spaces to get mainstream adoption.
Why do you think that is? Is it about tying reputation to a fixed identity? Even in an anon setting?
exactly mastodon's problem despite having two mainstream 'people fleeing twitter' events to date
to the smaller ones this may be helpful. but to ones that break out of the twilight zone i don't have much to gain from participating in this name space anymore and am giving my network affect value to others for free. said a different way i'm helping my competitors take my market share for free. why would i want that?
100%, global adoption is key to a thriving network. Is building a community similar to building a social network ? I always wondered.
🤝 Have a global namespace and then let subnets emerge organically or algorithmically.
Was actually thinking about something similar this morning: For true data portability you probably need global namespaces for *both* user *and* content identifiers (not necessarily the content itself). With those two things you could correctly relink both your identity and history when moving to a new server.
Until Farcaster, I did not appreciate the importance of name spaces for decentralization.
It’s a chicken and egg, social networks need mainstream adoption for name spaces to be global Otherwise it’s some weird id in the corner of the web
Agree 💯 It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) have to be real names, as long as proof of personhood can be verified. Exciting to see NFTs used to enable pseudonymity.
Why have we not settled on DNS (+ ENS) as the de facto global namespace? Imho the one questionable design decision of Farcaster
And the namespace must be rooted in cryptography. AI is making it extremely difficult to differentiate between fake and real content. Our only hope is using cryptography to establish authorship of content. And our feeds should prioritize signed content.
I feel Reddit is a great model for the whole of web3 social. There are so many thriving communities and all are well shielded still discoverable. Move seamlessly in a global namespace with a globally verifiable karma.
Actually going off of the reputation tied to identity thing. You could actually build an on chain identity, then use zk proofs to bring parts or all of it with you in a federated social network. So I have an on chain resume let’s say I own x and y NFTs and have worked at so and so. Generate zk proofs and add to my b
I don't really think this is axiomatically true. Facebook doesn't really have a notable global namespace. 1:1 (friend) networks are likely fine without, I agree that 1:many (follow) networks pretty much require it.