MeWe social network with 20M users to integrate with Polkadot parachain

Social web MeWe volition integrate with the Frequency blockchain network, a parachain of Polkadot, according to an April 26 announcement astatine Consensus 2023. The announcement added that the institution volition statesman moving its users’ accounts implicit to the web during this quarter.

Just successful from #Consensus 2023 - Polkadot parachain @one_frequency has announced a large concern with societal networking app @mewe to link its 20 cardinal users to Polkadot and the Social Web, giving each of them a societal individuality and afloat power implicit their ain data. pic.twitter.com/O39RNtEhDy

— Polkadot @ Consensus 2023 (@Polkadot) April 26, 2023

MeWe was launched successful 2012 and has been touted arsenic a “Facebook alternative” with allegedly amended privateness protections. An Axios study successful September stated that the web had implicit 20 cardinal users. Frequency launched arsenic a Polkadot parachain successful November of 2022.

At a Consensus 2023 sheet called “Laying Web3's Foundation With Decentralized Social Networks and Data Rights,” MeWe CEO Jeffrey Edell stated that the determination volition let MeWe to marque a imperishable committedness to information ownership for users:

Blockchain is similar doubling down connected privacy. So present you’re allowing the exertion to bash what companies committedness [...] Someday MeWe could get acquired by someone, a large company, and successful that instance, the privateness aspects could beryllium lost, but erstwhile we perpetrate to the blockchain, we’re committing to that privateness side.

“We ne'er surveilled, we ne'er amplified atrocious quality oregon misinformation, that’s conscionable not thing we do, truthful we’re precise logically acceptable up to determination into the web3 world," helium said earlier adding, "we person to benignant of march into that dilatory and prudently, but with afloat commitment.”

According to the announcement, the integration betwixt MeWe and Frequency is based connected the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), which Woodham worked connected arsenic portion of Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty. McCourt allocated $100 million to the task successful June, 2021.

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Amplica Labs was the archetypal method contributor to Frequency. Their President, Braxton Woodham, who was besides connected the panel, emphasized that the concern betwixt Frequency and MeWe volition not lick each problems successful societal media close away. However, helium claimed that it volition supply a basal model that app developers tin physique upon to hole a assortment of problems successful the future.

“Social networks impact a batch of antithetic problems, ranging from the idiosyncratic acquisition to moderation to AI algorithms for curation," helium said earlier explaining that "it's virtually intolerable to lick each problems astatine once, and truthful the attack we’ve been taking unneurotic is, let’s nexus our integer beingness unneurotic connected the web to make the societal web. That sets up the quality to onslaught the information furniture and attack those hard problems.”