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WendyDing
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YakiHonne Creator & Researcher in Decentralized Social Networks
If we continue to focus on a few individuals while ignoring the voices of community users, we risk losing diversity and autonomy. How can we achieve the decentralization that the community truly needs? Decentralization is a joint effort between humans and machines, requiring not just logical code but also the continuous evolution of the community.
Traveling back, I get a survey call: “Where have you been? What work are you doing abroad? When are you coming back?” I’ve lived abroad for years, submitted all the documents to show I’m settled, yet these calls come several times a year. Claimed to be for “citizen safety,” they often feel like invasions of privacy, making me wonder if I’ve done something wrong.
It’s similar to why I created the decentralized media client, Yakihonne. Certain topics are always censored or deleted, and using a VPN draws strange looks, as if I’m guilty just for seeking open information. But it’s simply about personal rights.
When I asked how they knew my travel information, the caller honestly told me: phone location tracking. At that moment, I decided to cancel my home country’s phone number and bank account.
The limitless censorship is making you increasingly disillusioned with a country.
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The same story is repeating. Many people have told us that fully decentralized media is impossible and risky. Interestingly, decentralized media today is much like SpaceX — a technology-driven systems engineering challenge. We might fail, but we’re going to try to do it.
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“Written on the Plane: Building Yakihonne and Nostr."
On the way back from NV to SG, the journey was extended from 24 hours to 40 hours due to various reasons and many interesting things happened along the way. ✈️ Special thanks to @Vitor Pamplona @jb55 @gladstein @Derek Ross @UNCLE ROCKSTAR @rabble @Alex Li, and others for their support and encouragement.
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Written on the Plane: Building Yakihonne and Nostr
In the early days of a small team, doing the right things and maintaining funding is crucial. My belief has always been that we are in a positive s...
Decentralized social networks were my main focus during my PhD. After I graduated early last year, my classmates Younes, @npub1f6kx...zhxn , and I went all in on building Yakihonne. This marks our fourth year exploring decentralized social networks.
For the first three years, we built a well-known decentralized research media platform in Asia. We experimented with decentralized creation, funding, and moderation to make media truly decentralized. From 2020 to early 2023, those were some of our happiest times—joining hackathons, winning grants, and focusing on decentralized media. We managed to achieve decentralized content creation for research communities.
In February 2023, we built a decentralized media client based on Nostr and secured some funding. In the early days of a small team, doing the right things and maintaining funding is crucial. Nostr's early phase, combined with the challenges many decentralized media projects have faced, made securing funding particularly tough.
I really believe in the Chinese saying, "After endless mountains and rivers that leave doubt whether there is a path out, suddenly one encounters the shade of a willow, bright flowers and a lovely village.” 山重水复疑无路，柳岸花明又一村。
At the Bitcoin Global Summit in the US, I met @npub1ughz...ktzm , npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , @npub19qha...y3ww , @UNCLE ROCKSTAR and others who gave us much encouragement and inspiration. In NV, I was asked if our projects on Nostr were competitors. My belief has always been that we are in a positive sum game—building the ecosystem together and creating growth, rather than being competitors. This is the nature of Nostr and a necessity for the future development of the world. The virtual digital world is vast enough, and we don’t need to cling to zero-sum thinking from the industrial age.
On my way back to Singapore from NV, a series of delays turned a 24-hour journey into 40 hours. Luckily, I still met my PhD supervisor. We had a great conversation about publishing and media through the lens of AI, social computing, advertising, and intelligent philosophy . Over the past 20 years, my supervisor has spent almost half of each year traveling to different countries, promoting the development of AI and complex systems. Now he’s more focused on making sure his students stay healthy.
Over the past two years, I received a few invitations for journal submissions, but I had to delay them due to my busy schedule. Moving forward, I plan to publish our latest research as papers, introducing Nostr and decentralized social networks to more academics, and inviting more researchers to join the Nostr ecosystem.
Right before boarding, I received support from an international academic organization, which really lifted my travel fatigue. Together, we’ll be planning a series of initiatives to engage the academic community in discussions about Nostr.
A big thanks to my team and @npub14sq5...gqkq for supporting Yakihonne and helping us grow.
Wendy
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2024-10-09
