For years the data brokerage industry has been completely broken. Over $200 Billion dollars of data is exchanged each year in an unfair and non-transparent way. But, consumers who are actually driving the industry do not share in the profit. Simultaneously, they experience many negative consequences as a result.
There’s a famous saying “if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" which rings true now more than ever.
Social media networks are centralized and controlled by big tech. There’s a rapid rise in the censorship of free speech and personal privacy invasions of the people by abusive authorities. While billions of advertising dollars are paid directly to centralized social media networks for targeting uncompensated users who are being auctioned off.
Instars.com is proud to announce its entering the next phase of it's beta, and launching as a feature complete, decentralized social networking platform, with built in ad targeting, survey targeting, polls, verified blockchain wallet accounts, and most importantly, decentralized login management.
> There’s a famous saying “if you're not paying for the product, you are the product"
Yeah, and users are still not paying for your product it seems. Rather, this time, the user is even getting paid! The user is clearly still the product, so why would you even bring this up?
Also, between the lines about blockchain and decentralisation, I'm just reading that this is one of the many companies that pay people a little bit for filling out online surveys. How is that new?
Verified instars.com users are paid 100% of all survey budgets instantly by smart contracts for consensual data exchange. Targeted online surveys can be matched with participants in 166 countries for as little as 2 cents vs traditional market research recruitment services rates of $1-$5+.
Blockchain transaction ID’s on every provider’s (survey panelists) submissions (data exchange) creates an environment of transparency never before delivered across the market research industry.
Legacy online survey software might reward panelists in Bitcoin but that's about it. Most blockchains are too slow and expensive to perform at major scale.
Insights Network users manage/host their encrypted profile value data on their local devices rather than a central server. Smart contracts govern the matches and consensual data exchanges that occur between end users. The system is fully automated. Data requesters survey results are fully encrypted with one time pad encryption.
Instars Survey Software is free to use for anyone who stakes 1,000 tokens (about $20 worth) vs paying $468+ a year recurring payments to legacy online survey providers!
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 11.5 ms ] threadThere’s a famous saying “if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" which rings true now more than ever.
Social media networks are centralized and controlled by big tech. There’s a rapid rise in the censorship of free speech and personal privacy invasions of the people by abusive authorities. While billions of advertising dollars are paid directly to centralized social media networks for targeting uncompensated users who are being auctioned off.
Instars.com is proud to announce its entering the next phase of it's beta, and launching as a feature complete, decentralized social networking platform, with built in ad targeting, survey targeting, polls, verified blockchain wallet accounts, and most importantly, decentralized login management.
Read our latest blog post and watch the new welcome video: https://blog.instars.com/instars2021/
Yeah, and users are still not paying for your product it seems. Rather, this time, the user is even getting paid! The user is clearly still the product, so why would you even bring this up?
Also, between the lines about blockchain and decentralisation, I'm just reading that this is one of the many companies that pay people a little bit for filling out online surveys. How is that new?
Blockchain transaction ID’s on every provider’s (survey panelists) submissions (data exchange) creates an environment of transparency never before delivered across the market research industry.
Legacy online survey software might reward panelists in Bitcoin but that's about it. Most blockchains are too slow and expensive to perform at major scale.
Insights Network users manage/host their encrypted profile value data on their local devices rather than a central server. Smart contracts govern the matches and consensual data exchanges that occur between end users. The system is fully automated. Data requesters survey results are fully encrypted with one time pad encryption.
Instars Survey Software is free to use for anyone who stakes 1,000 tokens (about $20 worth) vs paying $468+ a year recurring payments to legacy online survey providers!