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Sean Bonner@seanbonner·Nov 14

I have a longer blog post brewing about this but I'm just so excited to see all of this working. To me it feels like the dreams we had chewing on open social back in the "how can I move my friends from friendster to myspace to twitter to pownce to tumblr etc etc" and the same struggles we kept facing trying to get companies and platforms to understand the value in releasing control of that data. Especially with all the drama with Twitter's future right now and people looking at Mastodon thinking it's a solution without realizing it's just the same problem all over again. Lens is actually working as the solution. Love it.

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    tauro@shivams21088511·Nov 16

    nice

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      marlon smith@crazygamer16·Nov 16

      Don't forget to see my 30 to 60 posts

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        Sean Bonner@seanbonner·Nov 16

        The aforementioned post is posted!
        blog.seanbonner.com/2022/11/16/decentralizing-social-media/

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          alj59@alj59·Nov 14

          Companies and platforms always understood the value in releasing control of that data. That's why they never did it. Lens solves this.

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            Stani@stani·Nov 14

            The portability is such a strong concept in Lens since you don't really need to re-create your accounts and also you "carry" your followerbase across all the apps and the apps can also choose what to curate (i.e. only your music content). Technically all web2 social platforms could come up and agree upon doing something like this even without web3 and set some standards in a distributed ledger or trust-based system but they have more incentives to protect their platforms and ad revenues

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              Daniel Lombraña@teleyinex·Nov 14

              I completely agree. The feeling of owning everything here is beyond amazing.

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