What are the advantages of BBS Network?
Jul 22, 2021 9:25 AM
Key Advantages of the BBS Network Model
- BBS is a fully decentralized Reddit. Anyone can be a developer, an operator, a board owner or user.
- Unlike today's popular platforms, a board owner has a direct relationship with their audience, meaning they have access to their contact information, and have ultimate control over the audience UX, through rich admin configurations, choice of operators and autonomy in terms of service (e.g. one board owner may allow profanity while another prohibits and removes it, more on this below).
- The generated revenue is shared between the ecosystem participants in a fully automatic, transparent, and market-driven manner. Growth is constantly incentivized as a win-win for users, creators, advertisers and curators.
- Decentralized content policies - While most users would prefer that some types of content be banned, allowing this power to a single, central entity proves to be highly problematic. In the BBS model, each owner is responsible for the removal policy of their own board, and users can switch to a new home board if they are not happy with their current board content and moderation policies.
- The prediction-based discovery process provides a more robust solution for content curation. Today’s leading services rely on user reactions (Upvotes/Downvotes, likes, etc) that are easy to manipulate covertly using botnets. However, it is prohibitively more challenging to provide accurate post predictions, which provides the curation mechanism with manipulation resistance in a transparent environment, with reputation points stored in accounts that are publicly linked to users’ social credentials with an immutable record of all their curation activity.
- It is very easy for developers to build new modules that seamlessly integrate to any board (e.g. a module enabling IPFS-based video hosting). These modules can be hosted on their own custom servers and can be added to any board at the owner’s discretion through simple configurations and market driven revenue sharing.
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