# The Missing Killer Social App by Doug Petkanics

- Speakers: [Doug Petkanics](https://streameth.org/speakers/doug-petkanics)
- Channel: [Ethereum Denver](https://streameth.org/ethereum-denver)
- Date: 2023-10-07
- Duration: 19:13
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-5GDufHFiqjY
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GDufHFiqjY

## Description

Since the rise of Ethereum in 2016, the blockchain community has been grasping for successful use cases beyond the financial world. Meanwhile, social media is clearly ripe for disruption via the theoretical promises that web3 delivers. A collision is inevitable – But so far, the Web3 solutions on the market have failed to deliver. We’ve seen many nearly-cloned-but-subpar experiences of existing social sites that people are already used to engaging with every day, with added inconveniences of having to pay for every user interaction and vague promises of better creator monetization or data ownership. We know that Web3 has the potential to upend the social media paradigm. But instead of cloning existing social media applications as “web3 versions of X”, creators need to introduce novel solutions with the best of what decentralized networks can enable.