New Social

• Bridging the Open Web and APIs: Alternative Social Media Alongside the Corporate Web 2022-03-02 Jamie Jackson

  We analyzed GitHub issues to find breakdowns when syndicating between brid.gy and Facebook. Results explore how alternative social media can coexist w/ the corporate web

• There’s A Facebook Alternative, It’s Called Self-Sovereign Identity —coindesk
• Social Media Architectures and Their Consequences reb00ted
• Social.Network, a decentralized alternative to traditional social media that gives its users ownership of their identity and digital assets, to launch first phase of its protocol on April 22nd

  interested users will be able to create a self-sovereign identity on the platform by following the steps on the social.network landing page (h/t @SelfSovID

• Decentralized publication, micro-publication and moderation– what the real pitfalls would be. by Kim Duffy, Juan Caballero

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RMozl86wihBw8_rJvC97tUUjYVpTHk6aF8QOs_ng6l0/edit?usp=sharing

Set-up Presentation:

• Silos and echo chambers?
• Countermeasures?
• Pink Checkmark system? Verify all accounts or continue 2-class system
• Can we still make money?
• Moderation
• Clients and API openness - on what axes will they compete? Can they compete on algos? Community curation?
• How important is authenticity? Each tweet signed?
• Editable cheeps?
• Delete cheeps?
• Mike Jones: Listening to Daniel’s ION presentation, I asked from the POV of a naïve person, what are these ION DIDs good for in the first place; his answer was
• Daniel wants identities that Twitter can’t take away from Donald Trump
• Child pornographers would also then be sovereign over their identifiers
• Kim: People select their own echo chambers
• Juan: Echo chamber / child porn dynamics have a lot in common (HBO Documentary “into the storm”)
• Erica: Social media as a way to advertise, finding markets. Want to market to people who are interested
• Small business, organic marketing, micro-commerce
• Bullying, social problems, child protection

Scuttlebutt

• https://scuttlebutt.nz/
• https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/
• https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/#ssbrooms
• https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
• Kepler: Permissioned Replicated Storage for Decentralized Applications by Charles Cunningham, Wayne Chang
• Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_oaVcx2IEbUEr9I-23Fd1e9ZMkIYtxpJe76zYq1oVZE/edit?usp=sharing
• Secure Scuttlebutt Outro

Secure Scuttlebutt, Decentralized Identifiers, Key Management

Dmitri expressed interest in SSB and reported using but then having lost their key (when switching/resetting devices?). Expressed Frustration (with the key recovery process). Have question, how could SSB use DIDs?

Charles responded that there is a draft PR on DID Spec Registries adding a SSB DID method a few days ago.