The tech that is proposed in the article sounds a lot like Nano's block lattice, where everyone has their own blockchain.
You could even potentially use it to run this social network by just increasing transaction data size.
You could even potentially use it to run this social network by just increasing transaction data size.
However a week ago I discovered scuttlebutt.nz who also had the same idea, about a year before me, and already had a working useable app. So I've been using it and will probably be hacking on this for a while and see how I could incorporate some of the ideas I came up with prototyping my own network.