Own your social media content
You may not realize how much the TWITs take advantage of your social media content. Who are the TWITs? TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and other large social platforms like them. Today we dive in to how you can stay in control of your social experiences online by creating, owning, and sharing your content with your community. Here's a super simple way to build an app where you own your social media content.Overview
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Why is it useful to own your social media content? So that no one can take advantage of you.
Large social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram use your creations for their own benefit. They sell ads on your content and sell your data to advertisers.
When you own your content, you get to decide if and how it is monetized and you receive that money yourself.
The other aspect is privacy. When you are in full control of your content you have the ability to decide who can see it. Companies and police departments and other bad actors can’t simply use your data for their own gain. So you are protected when you own your content. -
How do you create and own your social media content? Through a community database.
A database is a system to organize your data, store it when you aren’t using it, and retrieve it when you want it. Let’s say you want to share your cat videos with your friends. As a group you can start and maintain a community database that is exclusively for you and your friends to share content with each other. You can add and remove your content from the database at any time.
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To build a community database you make use of 2 key acronyms: P2P which means peer-to-peer and CRDT which stands for conflict-free replicated data type.
Everyone in the group is called a peer. And each peer sends data to the other peers. This means you aren’t going through a third party like a company to share the data.
When you receive a lot of data from different peers you need to make sure none of it is conflicting. Two people might be trying to update the same data at once. A CRDT intelligently handles those conflicts and puts everyone in a state where you are all seeing the same data.
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