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The Rise of the Real Social Network: From Anti-Social Algorithms to Planetary Uplift
For the past two decades, what we’ve called "social networks" have been anything but. Designed to capture attention and monetize conflict, today’s platforms run on algorithms that divide, isolate, and misinform. They amplify outrage over understanding, fragmentation over unity. The result: more screen time, less face time. Less human connection, more digital addiction.
But what if we redefined what a social network really is?
A true social network wouldn’t keep you online. It would push you offline—into the arms of your family, your community, your neighbors. It would help you reconnect, not disconnect. It would amplify cooperation over conflict, reality over lies, and humanity over noise.
But that’s just the beginning.
A social network—if rooted in the Global South and designed for human flourishing—must go further. What if your biggest barriers were not interpersonal but systemic? What if your government is too corrupt and your economy too poor to give you the basics of dignity, opportunity, and prosperity?
This is where the social network meets GovTech and SpaceTech.
Estonia showed the world that you can build an end-to-end digital government from scratch. India went even bigger—creating Aadhaar (a biometric digital ID for 1.4 billion people) and UPI (a real-time payment system that has now become the backbone of India’s economy). These tools democratized identity and money. Africa doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. It can license and localize the tech stack.
But why stop there?
We need to map every inch of land across the Global South using satellite imagery, drone scans, and geospatial AI. Every plot—rural or urban—can be registered and verified. When married with Aadhaar and UPI-style systems, this land data becomes bankable collateral. That’s how you unlock $50 trillion in dormant capital. That’s how you get investment flowing.
A real social network does this.
It doesn’t show you memes. It shows you how to get a mortgage.
It doesn’t connect influencers. It connects people to power, to property, to prosperity.
And yes, blockchain comes in—not as a gimmick, but as the backbone of a velocity money system. One where money flows instantly, frictionlessly, with integrity, traceability, and trust. Where diaspora remittances, aid, and investments become transparent engines of development.
The West is sleepwalking. BRI is a blip.
The Global South needs something better.
It needs a social network that heals society, digitizes government, maps the Earth, unleashes capital, and runs on truth.
And it’s not science fiction.
It’s just the future.
And it starts now.
Rejoice, fellow idea guys. Time to build. (Via @sama) pic.twitter.com/m8FvJK9srk
— Alexis Ohanian 🗽 (@alexisohanian) June 10, 2025
