blog/Data-guilds

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blog/Data-guilds

Draft jointly written by Lily Jordan, Vivek Bhupatiraju, and Aayush Gupta The current model of how personal data flows through the internet is that companies like Google, Meta, and Amazon glean a set of data about you based on your interactions with them and then uses the data to sell targeted ad campaigns.

https://vivs.wiki/blog/Data-guilds

[baz-lightyear]

Hey Viv - I really love this post.

One of my questions is about the strategy and likelihood of data guilds being the form factor that intitiates the flood of the attestation <-> application flywheel.

As you rightly recognise, "emerging social platforms or even entirely new ones are better positioned" to adopt data guilds, because (in general) category-wide innovation only happens when you start by enabling a radically different experience, and only then, after growth, does the new technology become a standard that cannibalises legacy technologies and social experiences.

How feasible do you think it would be to compose data guilds into new social platforms like Farcaster or Mastodon? I wonder if this is too skeuomorphic because in that scenario the value proposition of a data guild that people get a bit richer. Do you think that this would be enough to get people using a whole different kind of network?

As an illustration of an alternative, one of the ideas we like at Tonk is Arnaud Schenk's idea of "trust infrastructure" as high-context, hyperproductive social spaces that you can programmatically enter based on your attributes rather than who you know. Another metaphor for the value proposition is a cosy web that you can actually surf. This would enable a kind of social experience that would be impossible on any other kind of existing infrastructure, and so is a another promising starting point for the idea of data guilds.

https://gestalt.cafe/trust-infrastructure/

~ Baz <3