Steven HessingDecoupling social mediaThe damage social media platforms inflict on our society is now well known. In this post, I describe how we can change the social media…Apr 18, 2023Apr 18, 2023
Steven HessingIntroducing a P2P Graph databaseIn this post, I’m introducing a P2P Graph database I developed called BYODA. In this P2P architecture, individual pods store data about…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Steven HessingRecommender algorithms for distributed social networksIn distributed social networks, each person stores their content, such as tweets or videos, in their own data pod, and services and other…Aug 13, 2022Aug 13, 2022
Steven HessingRefactoring social media technologyThe Internet and social media have brought profound changes to our daily lives, how we communicate within our communities and society, and…Feb 9, 2022Feb 9, 2022
Steven HessingThree steps to fix social mediaIn this blog post, I describe three steps that lawmakers and regulators must take to stop the exploitation of our data by the major social…Sep 25, 2021Sep 25, 2021
Steven HessingHow to redesign Social MediaAll successful social media services end up becoming monopolies. The benefit of the network effect is so powerful that people end up using…Jul 29, 2021Jul 29, 2021
Steven HessingYou should own your dataTake ownership of your data and control how it can be usedJul 15, 20211Jul 15, 20211
