Despite our rapid progress in information technology, information protocols haven't upgraded in 3 decades. DeSo is the first new information protocol upgrade fit for today's times.
While blockchains have been long touted as the solution to decentralize the internet, they have struggled beyond financial applications because of heavy data storage needs of the internet
The original internet protocols just transmitted data but did not store or index it. This lack of storage allowed big tech companies to fill that void.