Introduction
Gone are the days, when we used to visit the library all the time to access information. And I remember I would always be peaking through the various Encyclopedias on the shelves. These encyclopedias had great histories and things I never knew of, so I would always be at the library when there was no teacher around just to continue the vast knowledge in them. Many used to say, encyclopedias had everything one wanted to know.
During that time I knew we had something called internet but never knew google and all other search engines, so one day our Information Communication Technology (ICT) teacher gave us an assignment and had no choice but to use the school’s café for the first time.
Quickly I just typed encyclopedia in the URL and it took me to a search button, I asked the very question my ICT teacher gave and had what I was looking for. Since that day, I only used encyclopedia for my search.
The introduction of blockchain technology has now given life to a peer to peer crowd-sourced Encyclopedia platform that pays you for your content and your contributions. Lunyr is the name.
What is Lunyr?
Lunyr is a decentralized crowd-sourced encyclopedia backed by Ethereum blockchain, and the platform rewards you with tokens for peer reviewing and contributing information. This platform was foundered by Arnold Pham, a co-founder of Leandigest Inc., a Silicon Valley based tech startup. Lunyr aims at being the first place one visits over the internet when it comes to finding simple, reliable, and accurate information.
On Lunyr you are rewarded with app tokens called LUN, and these LUN tokens are being rewarded to you for your Contribution (CBN) and Honor (HNR) on the platform. Your contributions (CBN) are the contents you create on the platform to gain rewards from other users (reviewers). So here other users will review every content you publish and award you with a score they think your content worth. Over a period of two weeks, the score given by reviewers on your contribution (CBN) will be used to calculate how many LUN you will be awarded. On lunyr, you are at liberty to convert your CBN to LUN tokens or trade them for other cryptocurrencies. Honor (HNR) simply means the peer-to-peer review you perform on other users articles as a reviewer and the contribution you add up to their information that has been submitted.
You can download Lunyr on your Mac OS X (.dmg) here, Windows here, and Linux here to enjoy a whole new world of crowd-sourced knowledge base.
Problems With Other Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Bases
Other crowd-sourced knowledge bases such as Wikipedia face the problem of a centralized system, inaccuracy, and censorship
Centralized System
Other crowd-sourced knowledge base has centralized systems that control the entire system, individuals are to note that these organizations will never abuse their power by presenting you with their self -serving agendas. They will manipulate the system all the time. They keep making users not to access information when they feel they are not treated well. I learned Wikipedia once shut down for a day just to protest against internet piracy law which is very bad.
Inaccuracy
Inaccuracy here refers to the power been given to anyone with an internet connection to edit someone’s article(s). This means that one could provide false information for an article presented by other users.
Censorship
Government has control over these crowd-sourced knowledge bases and restricts citizens to what they are to search about and what they are not to search about. Citizens do not have the freedom to read or know more about what they like.
Why Lunyr?
Lunyr platform is decentralized, censorship resistant, and autonomous. They present you with total control of what you do on the platform with no interference from anybody. Your contents are secured and free from corruption. On top of it all, every activity that takes place on the platform is broadcasted on the blockchain for anyone to verify.
Since Lunyr is built on the Ethereum blockchain, it has app tokens used as a form of incentive for users. Isn’t that great, you get paid for your contents and various contributions you make on other users. What are you waiting for, join Lunyr and enjoy freedom and cryptocurrencies for what you do.
On Lunyr there is no corruption, all contents that are being submitted go through peer to peer review processes to be validated for reliability and accuracy before it is considered as a knowledge base information.
Lastly, Lunyr has an API tool that allows developers to create their apps on the platform.
Conclusion
Lunyr is here and it is here to stay for good, so just visit https://lunyr.com to install the version your operating system is compatible with and enjoy a whole new world of freedom, accuracy and secured environment that gives you total control of your activities.
All images used are screenshots from lunyr.com
References
Github Repository
Mac OS X (.dmg
Windows
Linux
Lunyr Twitter Page
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