Current Situation and Pain Points

🚨 Current Situation and Pain Points

Contemporary social media platforms are built on Client-Server architecture, which is essentially Location-Agnostic(location-agnostic). While it allows us to transmit information instantly to the other side of the planet, it often overlooks potential connections we pass by in physical space.

This architecture not only flattens the social experience, but also brings three unavoidable systemic risks:

1. Fragility due to infrastructure dependency

In natural disasters, network congestion (such as at large music festivals), or remote areas, centralized services that rely on cellular networks or Wi‑Fi can fail completely, resulting in communication outages.

2. Loss of data sovereignty

Users' social graphs (Social Graph) are locked in proprietary databases. Users cannot carry their accumulated reputation or network of relationships to other platforms, creating a severe platform lock‑in effect.

3. Mismatch between privacy and value

To maintain a free-service business model, platforms must monitor user behavior to target ads precisely. Every user interaction generates value, but that value is captured by the platform instead of being returned to users.

🕸 Limitations of DeSoc

Although Web3 social projects like Lens Protocol and Farcaster introduce on‑chain ownership of social graphs, they still largely rely on the Internet transport layer (TCP/IP) as their infrastructure.

They decentralize the database, but do not achieve decentralization of the connection itself .

Butterfly is based on the premise that:Physical presence is the ultimate verifier of human connection.