Why projects should build their communities on Steem

I have written countless of posts in the past explaining why it's much better for announcements of new projects and their team and communities to exist on Steem instead of Medium/Reddit/Telegram/etc. Here is another reason to make it a bit more obvious in case some people still are having trouble understanding the implications. I saw this post surface on Reddit today after Binance recently announced the removal of 5 different coins with Substratum being one of them.

Full Thread on Reddit, worth reading through the comments if you are an investor or are thinking about buying the dip (plz don't)

So without getting too much into what the project is, what it does or what they're plans are, the screenshot maybe explains it rather well. I want to bring up why all of these would do way better on Steem.

First off, obviously no censorship. No matter what you have to say, it will be there. It may be flagged, they may think you're trolling and flag you but other readers thinking you're not trolling may counter the flags. This gives the wisdom of the crowd the power to decide what should be visible and what shouldn't. Of course trolling and being an ass for the sake of being an ass should get flagged and I'm sure the majority of stakeholders will agree on that, but no criticism that has any substance will be unfairly flagged and remain that way here.

Another great thing that we got here which doesn't exist on the other platforms, or it may exist but only a handful of people may have access to it, is transparency of all actions and from which accounts they've come from. This means that people can of course attempt to manipulate the flagging system through alt accounts, delegations, etc. With enough research though many of these attempts can be tracked down to the root and unfair flagging will come to light sooner or later. Of course many will never truly figure out who was behind the manipulation, but they will find out there was manipulation to begin with which is more than what can be said about current platforms where only admins can track the actions of users. We have the blockchain and I'm sure over time tools and AI will be created to aid in this scenario.

So why is this important? It's important for many reasons. For one it will help our own community of users avoid scams, shady actions and uncertain projects from getting away with too much value. On second hand it will also help many readers that over time tend to trust the judgement of Steemians which are growing in numbers and distribution over time. Meaning more and more people will be better off reading and doing research on Steem which is completely transparent and you can't delete and censor whoever you want.

At the same time all of this will also strengthen the trust in the project to begin with. "Project X makes their announcement on censorship-resistant blockchain and will post updates there". Users will likely trust the project more only cause they have the balls to discuss everything involved on a platform without censorship.

It's kind of annoying in my opinion that we aren't seeing more of these popping up but using sites like Medium or Reddit instead which is a total mess where abuse is constantly brought up to light, makes me wonder how big the percentage is of the shit that doesn't become public knowledge.

Thanks for reading, I'll appreciate discussions on this subject in the comments below!

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