Hmmm I feel like this is technically in the weeds, but I'll try and come up with an answer.
I'd assume a social network's storage layer would be distributed as well, on IPFS or something similar with an encrypted blob that includes all your content.
Paired with a privacy focused scheme like Monero's where you can't see the contents of wallets you could keep the contents of social graph hidden, and do some transactions around.
I'd also say that privacy wise it's not like our current systems are perfect. You had reddit admins deleting and modifying people comments for example.
Not as bad as the general public being able to see your interactions, but not great if employees at these companies can see all your things you'd rather keep private. (And the design of these services makes it so that from a business perspective they want to see that data for targeting, and from a customer service perspective you want to be able to debug issues unlike crypto which rn has no CS expectations.)
I'd assume a social network's storage layer would be distributed as well, on IPFS or something similar with an encrypted blob that includes all your content.
Paired with a privacy focused scheme like Monero's where you can't see the contents of wallets you could keep the contents of social graph hidden, and do some transactions around.
I'd also say that privacy wise it's not like our current systems are perfect. You had reddit admins deleting and modifying people comments for example.
Not as bad as the general public being able to see your interactions, but not great if employees at these companies can see all your things you'd rather keep private. (And the design of these services makes it so that from a business perspective they want to see that data for targeting, and from a customer service perspective you want to be able to debug issues unlike crypto which rn has no CS expectations.)
0: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...