EOS-Based Social Media Platform Voice Announces Beta Launch

Voice, the social media platform first unveiled by EOS creator Block.

Voice announced the beta launch date in a blog post published by the project on Dec. 5.

Voice also claims that thousands have already signed up to take part in its beta testing.

The platform also plans to "Cycle value" back to the users in the form of its own tokens.

Overall, the firm presents itself as a social platform aiming to solve the problems afflicting its already active counterparts, such as data auctioneering and hidden algorithms.

"We believe Voice is social as it should be - where what's good for the platform is also good for you."

"Social media is broken. Designed to use us, our data and attention is harvested into trillion dollar profits, while we struggle to protect ourselves against the consequences of having our attention auctioned to anonymous parties, and our personal information traded on the open market."

During the event, Larimer also explained that such a misalignment of interest between the platforms and its users increasingly exposes the public to data profiling, identity theft, cyberbullying, and persuasive misinformation.

According to him, manufactured propaganda aiming to manipulate public opinion, which flourishes on social media platforms, makes it harder than ever to know what is real.

Blockchain and decentralization have been long proposed as solutions for many of the issues plaguing the current social media platforms.