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> For five years as part of my Ph.D. I’ve been working on developing an automated tokenized self-amending (right to delete content and right to be forgotten) “New Internet”.

Sounds good. And it definitely *seems* like it should be possible to develop distributed social media. All walled gardens turn to shite eventually. Substack - if it got big - would just go the way of Twitter & Faceberg. Who wants to post on somebody else's server anyway? Let me post on a blockchain or host messages on my own machine. Why should we rely on centralized servers and algorithms at all?

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