With Deplatforming on the Rise, Onchain Social Media App Memo Shows Promise

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In April last year, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the social media platform Memo.cash, a decentralized app powered by blockchain technology. The platform gives anyone the ability to create a profile, post messages, and send and receive tips as well. Nearly every action on Memo is recorded on the BCH chain using an OP_Return transaction. After the BCH blockchain split on Nov. 15, the creator of Memo decided to open the platform to users of both sides of each chain and now there is a Memo SV version of the site as well. Existing users who haven’t logged on since the fork can use the same login credentials for the SV section of the platform.


Memo feed 1-6-19.

Since we first reported on Memo, there was another social media platform for the BCH chain called Blockpress, but the application has been defunct for quite some time. Memo, on the other hand, has continued to grow with users and content is being shared constantly. For instance, Memo’s feeds are broken down into six sections, which comprise ranked, polls, threads, top, new, and archive posts. Similarly to Twitter, when writing a new memo users can utilize 217 characters per post. If an individual decides to create a poll, then they have to first create a question (209 characters) and then add two options (184 characters per option) for people to choose.


Memo users can embed tweets.

Memo users can post text, videos, pictures, and even embed tweets from Twitter on the application. Moreover, individuals can search the index of registered users by perusing a list of profiles that are also sectioned into different criteria like most followed and oldest, which shows the first Memo accounts created. The most followed Memo profile is the creator of the platform, with 777 followers, and the first account registered belongs to a user named Jason who has 142 followers.

Poster.cash and Unwriter’s Bitdb
Then there’s Poster.cash, a Bitdb-powered Memo extension protocol built by the software developer Petar Mitchev. The Poster application allows users to utilize most of Memo’s actions, which are performed in-browser. Poster provides infinite scrolling and the ability to track certain keywords as well.


Petar Mitchev’s project Poster.cash.

Similarly to the Memo protocol, Poster also gives users the choice to toggle between the BCH and SV network depending on their preference. Because Poster is powered by the developer Unwriter’s Bitdb network, it works as a serverless application. Mitchev gave props to Unwriter for creating the Bitdb and Bitsocket applications and noted, “I still can’t believe I wrote an actual serverless Memo implementation — And it works so nice.”


Popular topics on Memo.cash.

Overall, Memo continues to see lots of people posting uncensorable media and the extensions people have built around the protocol have made Memo’s ecosystem more robust. Of course, with the application serving both networks, there’s a fair bit of arguing between both camps when scrolling through the last few weeks of Memo posts. The Memo application also supports hashtags and many people add their favorite tags to posts. Popular hashtags at the moment are bitcoin cash, BCH, BCHPLS, roblox, and hashwar.

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