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Rick Porter: Building DSCVR. The future of decentralized social | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #39

Episode Summary

Will, Lee, and Drew chat with Rick Porter about the bleeding edge technology he's using to create DSCVR. A decentralized social (DeSo) distributed application (DAPP) on the DFINITY Internet Computer (IC). A Reddit where creators actually own the content.

Episode Notes

Rick Porter is the CEO and Founder of DSCVR. DSCVR’s mission is to create a decentralized social content aggregation platform where users not only control the content, but also the platform itself. Think Reddit, if Reddit’s development was run by its most dedicated community members. Prior to DSCVR worked at Google and Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures, where he built blockchain projects for Fortune 500 companies. Including a project for DeBeers using the Ethereum blockchain to track its diamond supply chain.

In this episode we discuss:

• His previous experience at Boston Consulting Group building blockchain projects for enterprise customers
• Why Rick learned Rust and WASM (web assembly)
• What is Decentralized Social (DeSo) and why is it important for today’s society?
• What are the building blocks within each DSCVR portal?
• What is DFINITY? Containerized, decentralized computing.
• Civil resistance / establishing personhood - how do you establish persons or persons?
• The multi-level altitudes that NFT's can exist at.
  • NFT's can represent your identity and contain more NFTs!
• The tokens and DAO's on DSCVR
  • Social token - earned via participation on the platform (not trade-able, not purchase-able) - helps make decisions on the platform
  • Governance token - Purchase-able, trade-able, used for powering the platform.
• How each portal on DSCVR is like a subreddit. Rick's belief that each portal (subreddit) should be a DAO. Thinking about whether each portal should have their own token / NFT / governance.
• Rick's goal is to create the rails people can build on to create communities. Creating the tools for a community to grow itself. Truly decentralized and governed by the community.
• Requirements for a community to successfully govern itself.

We're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.

Learn More About DSCVR

• Website http://dscvr.one
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DscvrO
• Introducing DSCVR: A platform that belongs to its community
• DSCVR Portal Governance

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