Building complex social webs

When describing a programmable social network people immediately picture a posting, liking, or grouping social network a la Friendtech or Farcaster. This is not inherently bad as it provides a simple, easy-to-digest tagline to describe the network. However, we use a slightly different definition of social, namely, anything that is subjective and might want to be saved off-chain but still represented onchain.

That is to say, we may not want to represent the phrase "Bob gave Alice a pat on the back" as Bob giving Alice 50 tokens on Ethereum nor represent this information puerly in offchain databases. This information should be referenced onchain while being stored off-chain. With this thought pattern, we can remove the mental hurdles associated with attempting to financially account for subjective tasks, such as choosing the correct bonding curve to represent Bob and Alice's relationship.

You may ask, why bring this information onchain then? Well once onchain, we can begin to represent relationships not as financial keys but as complex social webs, much like the real world. There exists reputation algorithms used by websites such as Ebay, that attempt to model these relationships to better serve their customers. Now, with a ledger entry of these social interactions, the web3 ecosystem can use these same reputation algorithms to facilitate truly peer to peer financial networks. Join us in building the infrastructure to stack subjective actions to build these complex social webs.

~ Sam (glu)

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