Hey, friends, let's talk about social networks today. Musk said that the mainstream social networks, such as Twitter and Weibo, are basically traditional centralized models. These large platforms are incredible, relying on their large market share to monopolize. Not only do they hold on to network resources to make a lot of money, they also keep squeezing out small platforms in order to maintain their monopoly.
Once other companies move their cheese, it will be miserable. They will definitely be suppressed or directly acquired. Moreover, this kind of monopoly is not good for us netizens. Our right to speak out is affected. Take those centralized social media for example. As long as they find any unfavorable remarks or factors that may threaten them, they will quickly cut off and prevent the flow of information.
Let's talk about Twitter and Weibo, where users are often banned and their accounts are blocked. Even Trump has not escaped the fate of being banned. Moreover, the administrators will keep an eye on what each user posts, so the risk of privacy leakage is huge.
However, there is a new thing called decentralized social network, which has many advantages. First of all, it has strong fault tolerance because it relies on many independent nodes to work. Even if there is a problem somewhere, it will not affect the operation of the entire system. Secondly, it is also highly secure and not easy to be attacked. Even if a few nodes are attacked, the system can still operate normally. Finally, it has strong privacy and is autonomous and efficient. There is no need for third-party intervention. It communicates directly point-to-point, and the information exchange is fast and good, and there is no need to worry about information leakage.
There was a big news recently. After Musk took over Twitter, a new social network called Hugin Messenger became very popular. Its Chinese name is "Swedish Public Chain". Many users went there and overwhelmed the server.
Hugin Messenger is very interesting. It is free and open source. It is similar to Twitter and Weibo in that you can use your own account to post pictures, texts and videos, and follow others. But it is different from centralized social networks like Twitter. It is decentralized. It is not controlled by any entity. It is composed of communities and servers created by users. The code is also open source. Each user can create his own community. Each community has its own server and operating rules. These communities are interconnected but not interdependent. It also has an important feature called cross-site. This form of community union and autonomy is great. Each community can be responsible for its own words and deeds. It is not as troublesome to review and manage as Twitter and Weibo.
From this perspective, Musk's layoffs seem to have really fueled the trend of decentralized social networking. Maybe in the future our social sovereignty will really be back in our own hands. Don't you think it's exciting?
