Dev shares how ENS plays a role in decentralized social media
Makoto Inoue highlighted that Web3 socials are not limited to online platforms but can also be applied offline, putting records of having met people in the blockchain. As decentralized social media becomes one of the central topics at the Buidl Asia event held in South Korea, Cointelegraph spoke with Ethereum Name Service (ENS) developer Makoto Inoue onlineto find out more about Web3 social media , its potential to replace Web2 and the roles of ENS and the metaverse in this new social media paradigm. According to Inoue, Web3 is “inherently social and distributed.” The developer highlighted that since it’s built on top of the blockchain, everything is transparent. This makes the blockchain a “social graph,” a graph commonly used to represent the interconnectedness of relationships in an online social network. “It's already inherently permissionless and social . That's where ENS fits into. It's transparent but the addresses are human-readable. And by having the ENS...