synereo - the decentralized and distributed social network



first spotted here on G+ where it is billed as:
"the world’s first fully-decentralized social network."
The White Paper -- very detailed
Apparently crowd funded with bitcoins.
... and, er ... whatever happened to diaspora ? ... maybe still active, see pods
Most active "pod" seems to be the Eeuopean one ... even so ... 5k active users is a drop in the bucket

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There must be some dependence upon the Internet.
i don't think they do eliminate that need. Where did you get that?

That is not the case with Facebook. Facebook owns the hardware and sets the assumptions under which messages can flow from person to person on its network ... it sets the rules under which a person can communicate. Whereas a decentralized network, like synereo or diaspora, attempts to allow communications without anybody owning the medium or controlling, or anybody setting the assumptions inherent in the communications.
Ideally a decentralized communication system has no government. Anybody can communicate to anybody else with no central authority interfering. The down side is that there is nobody to prevent evil ... the up side is that there is no government (or other entity) to restrict individual communication for its own purposes.
My own interest centers around my assumption that we have a sort of intelligent collective human mind growing which is supervening on the Internet. Ideally that mind should not be under the control of any peculiar faction, be it Google, Facebook, the Obama Administration, the Caliphate, or the Koch brothers. Right now, at least in this country, the mediums of communication seems to be mostly in the grips of a few M$M broadcast channels, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, twitter, etc, and perhaps the NSA.
*Assuming* that there actually is a intelligent global human mind growing, wouldn't it be better, if it were controlled by us humans individually as we freely interact? Or can you yourself choose a better top down government that should be imposed? Then of course, why should be use your peculair wisdom to choose the top down assumptions and control ... why not Joe Smuck's or Alum Almani's. No, nobody can choose the top down government ... so i say let us control our own individual communications as we freely interact with each other. When it comes to a intelligent global mind, I opt for the resilience of decentralization.
DK: AMPs can be used to amplify the power of information flow on the network. Investing AMPs in a post makes it propagate beyond its organic reach and increases it priority, making it more likely to appear in the stream of more users. Users seeing AMPed content in their streams receive a portion of the investment AMPs as compensation for their attention.
The AMP coin carries some properties that bitcoin doesn’t. For one, AMPs have an inherent value on the Synereo network, being able to “purchase” attention. Attention is - and will always be - a scarce commodity, and so there will always be a demand for it. AMPs also increase in effectiveness as the Synereo network grows, with each AMP allowing a post to receive more attention from more users.


DK: AMPs can be used to amplify the power of information flow on the network. Investing AMPs in a post makes it propagate beyond its organic reach and increases it priority, making it more likely to appear in the stream of more users. Users seeing AMPed content in their streams receive a portion of the investment AMPs as compensation for their attention.
The AMP coin carries some properties that bitcoin doesn’t. For one, AMPs have an inherent value on the Synereo network, being able to “purchase” attention. Attention is - and will always be - a scarce commodity, and so there will always be a demand for it. AMPs also increase in effectiveness as the Synereo network grows, with each AMP allowing a post to receive more attention from more users.

Synereo is designed as a framework for managing the attention economy. Synereo optimizes your ability to achieve your goals, social or otherwise, by shaping both inputs and outputs of information in ways that reflect your own estimation of value.

also covered in the white paper under the heading "Synereo and the emergence of a social consensus"


also covered in the white paper under the heading "Synereo and the emergence of a social consensus"

posted on April 1 st

Of course ... absolutely ... i am the same way

I assert that (same?) thing like this ...
I, and I alone, can move and feel this little patch of the universe and must suffer the consequences of that movement. I do not choose to deligate that responsibility to a standardized wisdom or a person (or entity) who does not even know, or care that I exist. Please ma, i would rather do it myself.
But i am talking here about a "communication system" among individuals ... like for example Facebook, G+, twitter, and the internet at large. What is the process by which specific things bubble up to your attention within these media? For example, yesterday this 18237 buttled up into your attention, and then you made your famous contribution above. What are the assumptions already inherant in these media that control what bubbles up? Can we improve those assumptions?

In this episode of The Future Thinkers Podcast:
- Every-day applications of Ethereum
- What are the benefits of decentralization?
- Architectural vs. Political decentralization
- Blockchains and Torrent networks
- Decentralized vs. distributed networks
- The problems with Bitcoin, and how Ethereum is solvng them
- Automating away managers and middle-men
- Ethereum and the near-zero cost ecomonies


perhaps technology can provide an alternative to wealth (or momentum) creating a power to control others

Oh sure and all, would we can presume it would be best if we all followed that rubric ... a big presumption indeed. The problem is that the instinct for self preservation almost always dominates any care for others. That apparently is human nature. So trying to imply that this uneforceable rubric is better than relying on the rule of law, is to piss into the wind.
Threefolding sees economics similar to the blood & breathing systems of the human body. [snip] I prefer to extricate economics from the political & re-balance it so that the balance of capital & how & what is produced is closer to the people who do the work instead of silos & pyramids. Evolution is still going on.



Some in society would pretend that the brain or limbs of the body could hate the blood system in your scenario.





The dominance of money in politics ... well now, that is something to hate



There is no "brain hating the pulse" going on when we makes law and enforce them with practical consequences. that is just the manifestation of story (or thought or planning and calculation) over the fickelness of emotion. it is necesary for the sustainance of life.
i too was surprised that Hillary said the thing about changing laws being preferred over chancing hearts in the context in which she said it. Fact is, however, that emotion cannot be trusted, especially the emotion of a mob. In the greater society and even within our individual selves, sometimes it is better to stick to a story that you know is going to work ... rather than go with a fleeting emotion of the moment.



I am taking no authoritarian path here. I just am acknowledging the usefulness of making laws (stories, thoughts, calculations, plans) and sticking to them ... as applied to self and as applied to society.
The concept called "authority" is quite distinct from that.
Why are you switching, a use of consequence enforcing laws, with a notion of authority?

Well "authority" is a natural language word and you and everybody else are free to use it just as you want.
I can, and frequently do, reject "authorities" that you trust, and i do so with no consequences except perhaps having to suffer your negative emotions. But when i try to walk away from police questioning me on the street, i suffer the consequences of being thrown in jail. For me the distinction is stark.
Oh sure and all, would we can presume it would be best if we all followed that rubric ... a big presumption indeed. The problem is that the instinct for self preservation almost always dominates any care for others. That apparently is human nature. So trying to imply that this uneforceable rubric is better than relying on the rule of law, is to piss into the wind.



sorry i cannot follow you from here to there ... seems that you are just throwing out irrelivant associations of words to construct the illusion of practical thought ... or more likely to obstruct it.
Well, not me. I love caring for others just as i care for myself.
The point is nobody has figured a way to implement practical consequences in our society when people instinctively don't give a shit about others. In fact some LOA memes appear to say that is irrelevant. They say you are quite independent of others, in charge only of your self, and need not concern yourself with the business of others. That is what i am thinking about in this item with Nathan.

Yep GR is internal guidance with no external consequences ... apparently we are in agreement.

Well do you know of any external consequences of not following the Golden Rule?

Well good question and good point. There are external consequences to you when more people do it ... and when somebody does it to you, there are external consequences to you. But If you do, or do not, do it to others, there are no externa consequences to yourself. There is kind of a paradox of numbers here. The part to the whole, the individual vs his society, ... strange how a thing like the Golden Rule gets all up in that dilema.


or is it that i am drawing quite distince (and understandable) distinctions and, what is being reflected in you, is your own confusion about them ?
And, of course social media is a giant selfie ... make the best of it, i say. You like the tits ... ok i do too ... the trend is to show more and more cleavage ... i like it ... don't you ... why shuld women hide their charms? Even denise is changeing her wardrobe ... i could show pictures but that would be breaking her confidence.
Anyway when those in the executive branch refuse to enforce the laws then even the laws are worthliess like immigration laws & anything the big "O" doesn't like. Like Hillary & her classified personal server etc.



I guess your "OR IS IT? NAH!" is you hiding saying anything of substance behind a cute reverse irony of your own titilation.
But i say it with no irony intened. Social media is the formation of societie's ego. Crap on it all you want, want something different if that is your stick ... that is why i say, "make the best of it" ... or "make it the best you can". Or piss on yourself ... not caring here ... not my business.


And yes absolutely! When considering egoo and mirroring behavior is it difficult not to get confused.
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