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Is it time for social media on blockchain?

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A few days ago I made a post in Spanish about if it's time for social networks in blockchain and I said I will write this post again in English but more complete.

The world of social media is now in a great historical moment because many people are concerned about the centralized authorities that are generated in its governance, of course private property is respected, but today social media can generate an information system that manipulates the masses.

Digital information in this era is very valuable and having algorithms that manipulate the masses is also worth a lot.

Let's recreate this situation:

Let's suppose that social media communication (newspapers, television and radio) was important for the population in the past because people could make decisions through the information that was shared there. This means that if social media today plays the same role, communication is focused on different social media platforms such as twitter, which is especially important for a political leader who wants to communicate with part of his country.

Based on the above, it means that blocking an account in a social media with thousands or millions of followers without strong arguments can be interpreted in different ways, depending on each person's point of view, but what we are saying most is the violation of freedom of expression.

We talk about freedom of expression. Does the world really want to be freer or are we not prepared for it?

The last question is, is it time for social media on blockchain?

Simplifying everything, social media on blockchain, under my criteria, can be an alternative to have more freedom of expression and to build things in a decentralized way.

But from a global or collective point of view social networks have many challenges to be adopted, one of the main ones is the congruence from their bases is necessary that they can demonstrate that their system can work in 10 years.

It is a path that will not come automatically, we must build it together before the big corporations arrive and dominate everything.

The social media in blockchain is a possible solution, that's why Hive is a good option, we must have an action plan to promote it.

I think that immutable systems are going to take a lot of value soon in the very near future, because big corporations feel the duty to have better databases and back up information, in order to generate more confidence to their customers, especially in social networks.

Hopefully it will happen in the next months, many projects are looking at blockchain to generate solutions like social media.

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