Use Damus, get paid.

There's a new decentralized social network - and this time, it might just work.

Why? Because one of the main backers is Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey.

It's still early days. Like, really early. In a world first, Chevy got the handle, '@chevy,' before General Motors did.

​Damus is a social network controlled by users - which supposedly doesn't rely on centralized companies.

It's built on Nostr (like, 'Nostr-Damus'), or 'Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays,' a decentralized network that lets people send private messages directly to each other.

There are no centralized servers within its network. Instead, it uses decentralized 'relays' to send and receive messages.

(Which are like servers, but they're individually owned).

E.g. With Twitter, information goes from: your phone → Twitter's server farm → other peoples' phones.

With Damus, it goes from: your phone → independently owned relay → other peoples' phones.

If one independently owned relay refuses you service, you can just switch to another (which isn't possible with Twitter).

In a tweet (ironic?), the Damus team just announced that users will be able to earn Satoshis (the smallest increment of BTC) in the next version of the app that’s “coming soon.”

This comes after Dorsey became vocal about an improved vision for Twitter back in December last year which would be decentralized, and would allow users to control their own algorithm and levels of censorship.

Last Friday, Elon Tweeted that Twitter would share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads.

It's unclear exactly how Damus users will be able to earn Satoshis right now.

But two announcements in less than a week about letting those who create the content (and therefore, provide so much of the value) getting paid?

We'll take it!