"Sapien could prove to be a viable and popular alternative to current existing social media platforms. More and more people are increasingly getting fed up with the way Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies are mistreating them — from selling their personal information to third parties, to bombarding them with ads they never asked to see."

"To Bhatia, the possibilities for this new type of social media network are endless and could completely change the way that people interact with each other online. In a final word of advice while speaking at the Blockchain Challenge Lab class, he encouraged UC Berkeley students to start their own projects that they think could make the world a better place."

Centralized platforms like Google and Facebook are known to take advantage of the data and information that they gather from users of their platforms. These platforms make money by selling their user data to advertisers without the permission of their real owners. In fact, they do so completely without any form of compensation to the real data owners. Therefore, it is no surprise that when people are offered the opportunity to take control of their own personal resources they jump at it wholeheartedly. This is evident from the reception to the emerging decentralized social network new platform, Sapien.

In response, blockchain-based platforms like Sapien provide alternatives to these centralized platforms. As a social media platform, it encourages free speech and the creation and sharing of high-quality content while discouraging fake news in the process.

"Sapien makes their platform experience dead-easy that even my technology illiterate grandmother could probably understand, through intuition alone. Putting the problems pertaining to the pure democracy approach aside, Sapien could also be a platform that tackles the Net Neutrality issue head on, enabling for users to control their own data, and to enable seamless peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions."