Introduction

I have started researching and testing out various web3/decentralized social media alternatives. My previous post goes intro more detail about some of the advantages over web2/centralized platforms like twitter, facebook etc. I also talked about some of the different blockchains, and which ones may be well suited to this type of dapp.

Before I go into a lot of evaluation and detail I thought that I would categorize them to get an idea of what I was dealing with. Some of the projects started off with primitives or platforms to plug into for sharing data and working together. For example, all the Deso apps share the same login, use the same data etc. Lens is a decentralized social graph which is available to all integrated apps etc. They are all in different stages of readiness for usage and evaluation.

Here is a recent article on the topic: https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/2022/04/07/decentralized-social-media-next-big-crypto-thing

Community posting, comments (like Facebook, Blogs or Medium)

Deso/Diamond

Near/Dotsama/Myriad

Near/Blogchain

Polkadot/Subsocial

Eth/**Mirror.xyz **(Bress** for discovery)**

Cosmos Loop.markets — community tab

Cosmos Desmos

Cosmos/Depub.space

Eth/gm.xyz

Polygon/Lens protocol

Farcaster/Yup.io

Solana/Solcial

Deso/Gemstori (like instagram)

Ceramic/Orbis

ID

The above article is very comprehensive, and explains each type of Web3 ID system. It is well worth reading

This list is from Crypto Girls article Called Getting ready for Web3 Social Trend, on Mirror:

https://poap.delivery
https://galaxy.eco
https://rabbithole.gg
https://noox.world
https://beta.dequest.io
https://www.disco.xyz
https://mintkudos.xyz
https://dappback.com
https://floats.city
https://www.gitpoap.io
https://www.lvlprotocol.xyz
https://ever.xyz
https://www.proofofhumanity.id
https://www.orangeprotocol.io
https://lifeform.cc/did-protocol.html
https://quadrata.com
https://www.unipass.id
https://qui.xyz
https://www.sismo.io
https://beta.layer3.xyz
https://alpha.etherscore.network
https://www.spectral.finance
https://worldcoin.org
https://www.idena.io
https://www.brightid.org
https://www.civic.com
https://ont.io
https://www.did.id
https://crew3.xyz
https://www.daylight.xyz
https://charismasocial.xyz

Video (Like Youtube)

Deso/Vibehut (Like Zoom)

Decentralized NFT’s and Audio

Deso/Polygram

Deso/Mousai audio streams

Deso/NFTz

Eth/Sound.xyz

Solana/Releap

Audius (Like Spotify)

Dao’s

Dao Dao (Deso)

Dao Dao (Juno/Cosmos)

Near/Astro

Near/Sptunick Dao

Near/Guilds

Deso/Entre (Like linked-in)

Forums

Messaging and mail

Decentralized filesharing

Skiff Drive

🏆 Achievement, Attendance, and Participation Protocols
Achievement, attendance, and participation protocols are likely the most well-known and collected category of Web3 credentials largely due to the popularity and accessibility of POAPs. As the category name states, these credentials are given based on achieving certain activities, such as completing a developer bootcamp, or attending and participating in an event. The event attended and/or participated in could be in the real world, virtually, or in a metaverse like Decentraland. Personal favorites include FLOATs, MintKudos, noox.world, and POAPs for their ease of use.

FLOATs (FLOw ATtendance)🌟👻 — @emerald_dao

GitPOAPs 🌟— @gitpoap

Idential 👻 — @Identialxyz

InCred ✅— @GoInCred

MintKudos 🌟👻 — @mintkudosXYZ

noox.world 👻 — @noox_world

POAPs (Proof of Attendance Protocol)🌟 — @poapxyz

rep3 — @rep3gg

Sismo 🌟 🔐 — @Sismo_eth

Search, Analytics, Aggregators

Deso/Setu (Migrate from Web2)

Deso/Oneclout

Deso/OpenProsper

Deso/Altumbase

Conclusion

Which ones should I evaluate first? The socialfi project which seems to be the furthest ahead at this point seems to be Deso. In the mean time, let me know if I am missing any — particularly if they are live or in beta testing stages. I can add them to the list for evaluation.