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…12 min read·Apr 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…8 min read·Mar 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…4 min read·Aug 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…5 min read·Feb 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…5 min read·Sep 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…4 min read·Jul 29, 2021----
Steven HessingYou should own your dataTake ownership of your data and control how it can be used4 min read·Jul 15, 2021--1--1