Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast: Koshiro K/Shutterstock When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, many users looked for alternatives, fuelling a wave of online migration from the social media platform. Musk says he’s using Twitter, now named X, to champion free …
Stolpersteine – the UK joins the world’s largest decentralised Holocaust memorial: Ruth Mandel The world’s largest memorial is about to get a little bigger, as it comes to Britain for the first time. It began life in 1992, when German artist Gunter Demnig laid the first “Stolperstein” – or stumbling stone – in Cologne, Germany. …
Decentralised finance calls into question whether the crypto industry can ever be regulated: Unregulated currencies and finance are cool in theory – but who is responsible when it goes wrong? stock_photo_world / shutter stock As stock markets around the world struggle through the pandemic, Bitcoin has seen a steady rise in its price. The cryptocurrency …
Black Lives Matter: decentralised leadership and the problems of online organising: Black Lives Matter doesn't believe in hierarchal structures allowing anyone to take on leadership tasks. Nikal Hallen/EPA In the UK, one of the leading Black Lives Matter groups is BlackLivesMatterUK. But while it is a leading voice, it is at pains to stress that …
Shokocast – The Most Innovative Social Music Platform Built On A Global Decentralised Blockchain Network: JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 26, 2018/ – shokoCAST, a global social music innovation platform, launches its social music platform that is set to be the most disruptive and innovative social music platform globally despite it having an African focus and …