An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View
Social media is becoming one of the dominant ways to communicate. Before social media, people were extremely limited in their means to interact with others, and they were limited largely to the people that they knew in person. However, this impact on people in real life has damaged privacy. Alternat...
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| description | Social media is becoming one of the dominant ways to communicate. Before social media, people were extremely limited in their means to interact with others, and they were limited largely to the people that they knew in person. However, this impact on people in real life has damaged privacy. Alternative solutions have been proposed in order to overcome current social media issues. In this direction, blockchain is one of the most promising, and several blockchain-based social media have been proposed. In this paper, we analyze blockchain online social media from the technical point of view in order to understand the current trend of social DApps and to describe which characteristics are important in a blockchain-based social media scenario. We analyze real data by exploiting one of the most well-known DApps sites, and we compare current technologies in order to highlight which ones can be better applied to a real social scenario, such as Facebook. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-92e47122a63d412f9104603363753d272023-11-22T20:24:31ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-10-011121988010.3390/app11219880An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of ViewBarbara Guidi0Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, 56127 Pisa, ItalySocial media is becoming one of the dominant ways to communicate. Before social media, people were extremely limited in their means to interact with others, and they were limited largely to the people that they knew in person. However, this impact on people in real life has damaged privacy. Alternative solutions have been proposed in order to overcome current social media issues. In this direction, blockchain is one of the most promising, and several blockchain-based social media have been proposed. In this paper, we analyze blockchain online social media from the technical point of view in order to understand the current trend of social DApps and to describe which characteristics are important in a blockchain-based social media scenario. We analyze real data by exploiting one of the most well-known DApps sites, and we compare current technologies in order to highlight which ones can be better applied to a real social scenario, such as Facebook.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/9880blockchain online social mediasocial mediablockchainDApps |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Guidi An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View Applied Sciences blockchain online social media social media blockchain DApps |
| title | An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View |
| title_full | An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View |
| title_fullStr | An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View |
| title_short | An Overview of Blockchain Online Social Media from the Technical Point of View |
| title_sort | overview of blockchain online social media from the technical point of view |
| topic | blockchain online social media social media blockchain DApps |
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