Warning: Dont use DESO, allegedly a "decentralised social network". It asks to enter your seed to login, and whats worse - they store your seed in plaintext locally.

DeSo is supposedly a decentralised social media platform that has recently launched its token without even a platform yet.

When creating an account, it asks to enter your seed to login.

Sign up with seed

Yeah.. sure jan.

This is such a horrible security practice that just doesnt need any explanation.

Definitely, nothing untoward can happen by entering your seed to login everytime..

Oh wait.. they themselves prove how it could go horribly wrong.

Not only do you have to enter the seed, they are storing the seed in plaintext locally

Seed stored in plaintext

This horrendous security practice was noticed by user Nptacek.

The whole platform stinks tbh, if you go to their home page, its full of buy their shitcoin links instead of an actual social network. Decentralised social media networks like Mirror and GM already exist that do not have any token and can be used already. Mirror especially is growing in popularity as an alternative to Medium among crypto users. It doesnt have any token, and only uses Metamask to verify the authenticity of your account. For example Vitalik could verify himself with his ENS address.

Whereas DESO seems to be only interesting in pushing their token first and has a market cap of over $650m without even a functional product.

Why should I buy a token to use a decentralised social media network first?