The first thing that jumps to every millennials mind when social media is mentioned is pictures and videos of their favorite celebrity or television show on the different social media platforms. Different platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, etc are champions of these space.
Social media was specially created to be a medium where news and information are being shared. These social media platforms gave people the ability to share news and information in an instance without the need for authorization.
The first thing that jumps to every millennials mind when social media is mentioned is pictures and videos of their favorite celebrity or television show on the different social media platforms. Different platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, etc are champions of these space.
Social media was specially created to be a medium where news and information are being shared. These social media platforms gave people the ability to share news and information in an instance without the need for authorization.
But how much of control should the administrators of these social media platforms have over the news and information being passed?
Well, there is numerous fake news that is being passed each day on these platforms. This means that there is a missing link on who checks for the authenticity of this news. The main aim of decentralized social media is to check and verify this news and information being passed on the medium
Is Decentralization of Social Media Even Possible?
Yes, it is very possible. This can be done through the various decentralization platform that is currently available. With these platforms, there is room for the verification and the authentication of the news and information being passed across.
A typical example of Decentralize Social Media is Sola; a decentralized system that is almost like a combination of the famous Instagram and artificial intelligence.
This social media was moved to blockchain which is a decentralized platform through the social layer.
The decentralized network allows information being passed to reach its networks faster as a viral disease with the ability to share the authenticated information.