Web3 social networks cannot preserve privacy

2 points by atlasV 4 years ago | 7 comments

While everyone is making a huge hoo-ha about web2 social network privacy, in web3 no one will be able to delete their posts thus no right to revoke. Wonder why there is no noise about web3 privacy - unless pseudonyms becomes a thing we could all just leave our toilet doors open aswell for data mining!

wmf 4 years ago |

This is not a given. It's likely that a lot of things would be off-chain.

atlasV 4 years ago | |

curious, what would be the point of having posts off-chain? The whole premise is that the chain is open hence no one can censor etc.

wmf 4 years ago | | |

Obviously keeping data off-chain helps if you want mutability. It's also cheaper and faster. I could imagine a social network where only identities are on-chain.

atlasV 4 years ago |

In the new open world censorship would be public shaming (with some sort of labels) - scary and interesting at the same time