**Vitalik Buterin Calls for Decentralized Social Media to Complement Twitter** On January 23rd, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin spoke at an event named Space, sharing his take on decentralized social media: “I used Farcaster extensively in 2023 and 2024. Recently, I’ve focused on decentralized social platforms for two key reasons. First, Twitter’s conversation quality is notably poor — it’s not fit to be the global hub for conversations, so we need more options. Second, the network effect: even if a new product has better algorithms and stronger privacy protections, it means nothing without users. Firefly solves this dilemma with two core features: it’s a decentralized social platform *and* a multi-platform gateway. It works as a Twitter or Farcaster client, letting users engage with decentralized social media without leaving Twitter. This fixes the network effect problem.”
