MeWe social network with 20M users to integrate with Polkadot parachain
Social network MeWe will integrate with the Frequency blockchain network, a parachain of Polkadot, according to an April 26 announcement at Consensus 2023. The announcement added that the company will begin moving its users’ accounts over to the network during this quarter.
Just in from #Consensus 2023 - Polkadot parachain @one_frequency has announced a major partnership with social networking app @mewe to connect its 20 million users to Polkadot and the Social Web, giving each of them a social identity and full control over their own data. pic.twitter.com/O39RNtEhDy
MeWe was launched in 2012 and has been touted as a “Facebook alternative” with allegedly better privacy protections. An Axios report in September stated that the network had over 20 million users. Frequency launched as a Polkadot parachain in November of 2022.
At a Consensus 2023 panel called “Laying Web3's Foundation With Decentralized Social Networks and Data Rights,” MeWe CEO Jeffrey Edell stated that the move will allow MeWe to make a permanent commitment to data ownership for users:
“We never surveilled, we never amplified bad news or misinformation, that’s just not something we do, so we’re very logically set up to move into the web3 world," he said before adding, "we have to sort of march into that slowly and prudently, but with full commitment.”
According to the announcement, the integration between MeWe and Frequency is based on the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), which Woodham worked on as part of Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty. McCourt allocated $100 million to the project in June, 2021.
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Amplica Labs was the initial technical contributor to Frequency.
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