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We are starting to see the emergence of new internet protocols that store data instead of just transmitting it which allows users own their data instead of relying on big tech.

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Online content shapes our daily choices, yet we have decreasing ownership and rights over both the content we consume via AI-driven social media feeds. On the creation side, the situation is even more dire with AI assistants scraping through creator's content and serving it via LLMs without any payment or traffic diverted to the creator. Big Tech companies completely control our content supply chains. While blockchains were meant to liberate us by creating a user owned web3.0, they've struggled with media ownership due to the high cost of storing large amounts of data required for social applications. But we're starting to see the rise of next-generation blockchains, specifically designed to store and index large amounts of data cheaply, finally allowing us to truly own our content just like Bitcoin allowed us to own our money.