https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1458013506284961795.html
https://mobile.twitter.com/jimcollinson/status/1458013506284961795
The new web we are building is about gutting middlemen from our digital lives. 3rd parties that have inserted themselves into it solely for the purpose of asset stripping personal data, trampling on privacy in order to productise us.
Imaging what the next web will look like through the thought experiment of “what if Twitter decided to put everything on the blockchain?” is a failure to understand the needs and rights of humans and put that central to the web’s future.
Proclaiming “shared data doesn’t matter” because tech giants won’t publish it—because it’s unsustainable to their business—misses the point:
It wont be their data any longer because we are putting it back in the hands of the individual!
So, let’s take up the challenge of unpacking these claims, by taking a little journey into the recent past…
because if "most people don’t have the mental toolkit to process this" we’ll need a little help, right?
Back in the era before the web, our relationship with ‘apps’ was quite different. A home computer sat on your desk—25MB hard drive whirring—and more often than not, it wasn’t connected to the internet.
On that hard-drive was your personal data. Yours.
You used software to manipulate it, and get things done.
There was no business you handed data too. No way for them to lock you out, lose it, or sell it, because they never had it in the first place.
This is what we are creating with Web3+ projects like the Safe Network.
Apps return to being just tools I use to manipulate my own data not services I trust to handle & publish it.
There are no other eyeballs looking at it other than mine
My data is all under my control, and it’s not anyone else’s decision who it gets shared with other than mine. There are no advertisers analysing my usage, tracking my clicks, and manipulating my behaviour.
Yet I still get the benefit of data that is accessible from anywhere, and tools to collaborate with other people, and software that can use the powerful connected collective utility of the wonderful thing that is the Internet…
But it’s a new web that’s not built on a foundation of surveillance capitalism business models, but one that is owned by everyone; and one that hands control of data back to the people it belongs to: YOU.