Social blogging platform AKASHA will release an Alpha test version soon

Censors have plagued social media platforms for years, and AKASHA wants to put an end to that. This “next generation” social media network is powered by the Ethereum world computer and the Interplanetary File System (IPFS).

Can AKASHA make social media free from censorship?

This will be the main question to be answered in the next few years. AKASHA wants to bill itself as the social media network of the future, running on the Ethereum world computer and the Interplanetary File System. What better day to announce this project than World世界新闻自由日, which is celebrated on May 3rd every year.

Everyone in the world has the right to express their opinions, but currently not everyone has the privilege to express their opinions freely. This is a serious problem plaguing our civilization, and projects like AKASHA are poised to correct this situation in the future using the latest technological advances.

Speaking of this technology,以太坊protocol can be used in many ways, not just to facilitate smart contracts or let users transfer Ether. At first, using Ethereum technology to solve the world's censorship problem seems like a way, but remember, we are now living in信息化社会.

Imagine a world where information is allowed to flow freely and is not stored on servers where it can be randomly deleted by certain people. Therefore, information will continue to exist forever, in the network where nodes provide data to users on demand, and nothing will be forgotten, destroyed or need to be changed to accommodate hidden agendas. All of this is what AKASHA wants to achieve in the next few years.

The AKASHA team started prototyping their platform using Meteor last year and is still working on it. While there is no right or wrong way to develop such a game-changing system, the journey was so frustrating that they had to make the difficult decision to migrate the concept to a different platform.

The platform became the Ethereum World Computer combined with星际文件系统. This transformation into the AKASHA platform opens up exciting new possibilities, as it could evolve from being “just another social media platform” to something that could potentially become the “nascent social fabric of Ethereum.”

People around the world should imagine AKASHA as a decentralized social blogging network, in which co-authored news and social crowdfunding play an important role. But in reality, its opportunities have expanded far beyond these principles, and since we are only limited by our imagination, such a decentralized platform can eventually be realized.

Finally, the need for servers is completely removed from the equation, and access to information can be (virtually) guaranteed via IPFS . AKASHA could well become a new paradigm for publishing on the internet over the next few years, although there is still a lot of work to be done.

When it comes to AKASHA's initial development ( alpha ) phase, everyone in the world is willing to participate and share their ideas and thoughts with the developers. Alpha test invitations will be sent to Linux, MacOS and Windows users in the coming weeks, although no more specific details are available at the moment. Having the right tools to create a better web is one thing, but without community involvement, such a project will not have strong traction.