“What if social media wasn’t owned by corporations — but by protocols and people?”
🧠Introduction
The web was supposed to be free.
Instead, it became a series of gated gardens, run by giants, fed by our attention.
But something is shifting.
A new kind of internet is forming — one where identity is portable, posts are composable, and communities are economic systems.
This is the world of DeSoc protocols and protocol societies — and it's where v03 lives.
🔍 The Problem: Platforms Centralize, Protocols Empower
Every community today begins as a Telegram group or a Discord server.
That’s fine — until you grow.
Then it hits you:
- You don’t control your members.
- You don’t own the data.
- You don’t have native incentives.
- You’re a renter — not an owner.
Centralized platforms are containers.
But protocols are rails — open, programmable, interoperable.
If Web2 built walled cities, Web3 builds open nations