Dan Larimer’s newest project is another attempt at decentralized social media
The former founder of Steemit and Block.one is tackling social media once more. Daniel Larimer, former chief technology officer of Block.one and a co-founder of Block.one and Steemit, has revealed his next project, called Clarion.The project is meant to become a mobile-first decentralized social media platform, supporting all types of social features like personal messaging via text and video, publishing content to followers or having Discord-like voice chat rooms.According to Larimer, Clarion “learns lessons from other projects,” including the initial idea for Steemit and Voice, two....
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