Walrus and Social Media: Who Owns the Memory?
Walrus makes decentralized social feel real because most social apps don’t fail because of the main scrolling stream you open in apps. They fail because one company owns the memory. That company can delete your posts, hide them, or change rules anytime. So even if you created the content, you’re dependent on the company.
Walrus work is different as there are two parts to social apps the chat and the storage. The chat part is fast: likes, replies, trending posts. The storage part is heavy: long texts, photos, videos, and important public data. If Walrus is used for storage, your content can stay online even if one app shuts down .
Walrus also creates a hard question: if data is hard to delete, who decides what should be removed? The user? A community vote? A time limit? And how do we deal with spam, abuse, or mistakes without giving one person full control again?
So in my opinion Walrus gives us a path where social apps can stay flexible, but the history stays safe .
