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- Recent actions in Brazil towards x shows that social platforms will have hard time to establish resiliency for freedom of speech or to thrive as fair and open social spaces.
Eventually x would need to take down accounts that are unlawful for whatever legal decision or interpretation of the law. This also means that politized judgements or interpretations of the law can become a reason to take down opinionated accounts.
There are lot of cases in history where the law or court judgements have been used as a political tool.
A way to enable open and fair social spaces would be by relying on a network that can ensure data integrity for social data (accounts, followers, content). If a node does not respect the data integrity, it gets disqualified and removed. New nodes will appear due to the cryptoeconomic incentives.
Thats why I am also bearish on existing federated data models since there are little incentives to establish data integrity. Nodes can be paid to run these servers to serve data and “to be nice” but without a consensus, there is no guarantee for data integrity.
Once there is a consensus over data integrity, social primitives can be established and ownership rights issued to private/public key holders of the network participants. Virtually Bitcoin relies on the same mechanism for establishing ownership guarantees over a financial primitive.
This is why I am bullish on using onchain for providing security to ensure data integrity and ownership that eventually can enable censorship resistance. Moderation would still work on an application/platform level without seizing users accounts and voice on protocol level.
It’s a fundamental transition from don’t be evil to can’t be evil.
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- Good day!!
- Who's joining us in Miami?
- We're thrilled to join this 4-week innovation sprint powered by Encode Club with Onyx by J.P. Morgan as the premier sponsor.
Hackathon bounties for Lens devs:
🥇 Best App - 2.5k USDC
🥈 Runner-up App - 1.5k USDC
🏆 Best Integrations - 500 USDC (x2)
Get involved: https://www.encode.club/digital-identity-hackathon
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- I just voted "Nah, I don't really" on "Poll by @stani.lens" https://snapshot.org/#/polls.lenster.xyz/proposal/0xfa2d8929571b100be0c6ec0c391571a662edc9b6d16b018931870d12e410d717 #Snapshot
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- Introducing Bonsai, an Optimistic L3 scaling solution, that will process transactions at hyper-scale, and is designed to support the next generation of web3 social users.
Available for Lens devs in closed beta today.
Data availability layers are utilized to prevent storing information on-chain. While content on Lens may include an on-chain transaction, the content data is linked to a data availability location, like Bonsai.
Bonsai serves as a scaling solution that processes Polygon transactions off-chain, achieving hyperscale and reducing costs. Unlike L2 solutions, Bonsai doesn't compress transactions into L1, it sends and stores them on a data availability layer.
The main challenge for decentralized social networks is to ensure that users have control over their content, while still being just as user-friendly as traditional social networks.
Bonsai makes the future of decentralized social possible.
We've worked relentlessly with the @bundlr-network.lens work and Arweave teams to ensure scalability by providing Data Availability (DA) guarantees, allowing the use of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-supported wallets to save DA logic and facilitating the rapid publishing of data.
Permissionless innovation is at the core of everything we do on Lens. As we approach one year on mainnet (still in beta), we have been blown away by the talent and passion in our dev community but we realize in order to scale to the masses, we need to build new solutions.
Bonsai is currently only being beta tested on @lensterxyz.
We look forward to seeing more applications roll out Bonsai.
Dive into the dev docs here: https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/data-availability-post
Explore: bonsai.lens.xyz
Read our latest blog here: https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/3Hcl0dGE8AOYmnFolzqO6hJuueDHdsaCs3ols2ruc9E