How will everyone's social identity be defined on chain and how will it relate to web2 and real life?
Essentially when we discuss on chain data we are discussing the identity of individuals, whether it be transactional, social or financial. There does seem to be a misinterpretation of the financial narrative but with the help of non financial fundamental sectors this would offset this issue. Most people think that web3 is all about permanent records for example: legal affiliations or membership credentials. However, once they actually enter the space people soon realise web3 is about so much more. One of the things that is being overrepresented is the financial aspect of the blockchain. However, there is a shift happening away from this from education credentials to employment history to different works of art and if we can really establish this kind of identity we can start to build more social policies or relevant social changes. The type of actions you make on the blockchain is also definitive of your identity. If we only let data represent human beings it is kind of sad. However, you social identity has not been changed in the philosophy part because you are still you but your creations, activities and your time from your socials , your friends' socials and your memories are recorded on the blockchain.
How to ensure the privacy of on chain social interaction? What are your thoughts?
We know from the current infrastructure of crypto that actually all the data is public, visible and on chain. So actually all behaviours on chain is visible by others. Actually maybe not every social interaction will be put on chain because the basics of social interaction is already pretty solved quite well in web2. Actually what will be put on chain will mostly be the identity and the reputation which is what people want to put on chain. Just like what people are doing in web2 life for example: They put their professional profile in LinkedIn. They put their hobbies and they put their life on Instagram. Actually, those public data. I think it's more likely to be put on chain while those private data actually isn't. It's not easy to let every human accept that they will put all their data on chain. Mask network has done a very good job in terms of encrypting some of the messages that we can share to some people that we can allow for them to read the messages. So yeah, there are a lot of ways to protect user data. Finding the sweet spot between what users think is the data which is imported versus something that you can publicly share can be construed quite differently across different people right, so being able to identify which ones are able to be shared giving this total control to users. That's definitely what a user would be looking forward to in this new 'control to users'. That's definitely what users would be looking forward to in this new space. Having that control as well. Maybe the identity and social graph verification can be put on chain while the actual privacy layer can be built upon that.
What is the biggest challenge web three has brought to our daily social life?
Being more self conscious of what you put and how you convey something online. Also being able to mentally shift your mind from the control of a government or big corporations that exploit people's data so that people are no longer incubated by this control and the technology can have a lot more social goods and projects to flourish. That being said, web3 has not directly changed our social daily life right now but web3 projects with an open source will bring social identity and make reputation verification easy and build a reliable and trusting Internet which we could have never imagined before. You know, challenges and challenges come together, especially when we know about the dual political implications of web3 and we're definitely facing a lot more, a lot more challenges - more about the long term - and also wider implications for our society; social, societal and cultural, political, and even in a geopolitical sense. So that's definitely something and some of the topics we have been kind of avoiding and missing in the past. Discussions are mainly up to this point in and around the crypto area, but we'll see sooner or later, and it's coming. It's coming very soon that that we have to talk about these challenges in a more conscious sense and to make choices.
What kind of social relationships and society should people want in Web 3?
Web3 is a network that built completely online, which means that we should we have to assume such a scenario that two people might never meet in real life, but we have to collaborate on the network so to make sure that such a collaboration can be trusted, we need Web3 and we need a reputation protocol built on web3 and with such a reputation protocol, we believe that collaborations can easily be built. In that where people can trust each other based on their previous transaction history based on their own on chain reputation, collaboration will be the most important social relationship in Web3. Regarding freedom of speech because we all know that there is like a market nuances versus different markets, different countries or different places. And in social media, we always have this issue right. Whether or not we can openly share something and then suddenly either the the centralized party, would either ban our account because of something we said wrong or getting a lot of kickbacks from different perspectives and what people may not want to hear. So always trying to find that the right balance between what kind of things you can say without offending too many people or getting so much criticism for hearing different thoughts. On top of the crypto technology and on top of the block chain technology we can enforce labour rights, human rights etc in a smart contract that can be used to incentivise people.
