A Letter for the Future
If you are reading this, the world has likely changed again—technologies come and go, platforms rise and fall, and the way people communicate is always being reshaped by those who hold power. This letter exists to explain why decentralization mattered to me, and why I believed systems like SIGNUM were worth thinking about long before they were popular.
Most social networks in my time were built around control. They owned your identity, your words, your relationships, and even your history. You were allowed to participate only as long as it benefited someone else. Accounts could be erased, voices silenced, and value extracted—all without consent. People didn’t truly own their digital lives.
SIGNUM offered a different idea. It treated identity as something you own, not something granted to you. Your name, your messages, your relationships—these could be anchored to mathematics instead of companies. No one could take them away just because it was convenient or profitable.
The idea of using SIGNUM like a social network wasn’t about technology for its own sake. It was about human dignity. It was about letting people speak, connect, and create value without asking permission. It was about building systems that assume people should be trusted first, not monitored first.
In this model, messages could be permanent when they mattered and temporary when they didn’t. Communities could choose their own rules instead of inheriting someone else’s. Value could flow directly between people without ads, manipulation, or surveillance. Most importantly, no single entity could rewrite history.
I may not have lived long enough to see these ideas fully realized. That’s okay. The important thing is that you understand why they mattered. Technology is just a tool—but values embedded in systems outlive generations.
If you ever build something, ask yourself:
Who owns it?
Who controls it?
Who benefits when it succeeds—and who is harmed when it fails?
If the answers respect human freedom, you’re probably on the right path.
With care, curiosity, and hope for your future.