A Love Story: DECENT Meets Steem

in #decent7 years ago (edited)

Why stand on the shoulders of giants when you can walk along (hand-in-hand) with the army?!

Queens and Kings... pawns no more!

"Content is King" as they say, but we are not living on a chessboard so while we are creating quality content let us not be pawns (pun intended) to the publishing and advertising giants.
As I have been observing Steemit Philippines' for a while now on Discord @steemph, I can't help but notice that most (if not all) content creators have been producing great quality piece on blog sites, wordpress, facebook, medium and youtube (to name a few) way before they started steemit. Indeed, we have a pool of awesome people, writers, musicians, bloggers, educators, video editors, film producers but can't get that break they endlessly aimed... not to mention the sustainability of producing quality contents.

For all intents and purposes, I'm referring specifically on the monetization aspect.

How much do you earn posting on the publishers i mentioned above? That's right, not even a significant amount (and passion can't bring food on the table). If you are persistent enough, you would spend more efforts on promotion, SEO, marketing etc just to get the "nickels and dimes". Instead of focusing your energy for creating quality content, you'll end up burning out from all the bureaucracy imposed by these Giants... them getting the fruits of your labor while you sit back getting cents or none at all.

Towards Decentralization

Steemit flips the model of the privately controlled social network on its head by embodying a platform that returns the value of contribution to its users.

With Steemit, bloggers, writers, editors found a new home where they get what they deserve. The rewards system of steemit have benefited all fronts which is apparent on the rapid increase of its adoption. But do we stop here?

Needs Improvement

  • Wait, there's more we can do! How about videos, images, softwares and other digital contents?
  • What if we can monetize them as well? What if we can publish other digital contents like this beautiful voice (credits to @Dreamiely) and earn money? all without the central authority and middle men? Monetization follows the Steemit model - you earn money for great contents and you earn money for promoting great contents!
  • What if instead of netflix, or spotify we can consume digital media at a fraction of a cost? benefiting both creators and consumers?

The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack

Now, here comes the DECENT Network

all images from this source

The Birth of steemph and decentph on the DECENT Blockchain.

At block #1016662 , steemph was born - https://decent-db.com/@steemph
At block #1016832, decentph was born - https://decent-db.com/@decentph

Watch out for their marriage! Meanwhile, here's a sneak peek of the prenup shoot!

If you want to know more about these efforts follow and contact @tjpezlo.


If you have suggestions, comments and reactions let me know your thoughts.
Comment below, upvote or resteem.
You may find me on discord of @steemph here https://discord.gg/qJaRZ4m
Decent slack: http://decent-project.slack.com

Or just shout your message (for me) on the internet and I’m sure will find it (creepiness not intended)

I code with purpose. I am @precise.

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Everyone is invited to THE WEDDING i suppose?

Oh i love that "everyone"...can i choose the honeymoon destination????

sure thing! as long as it's free hahaha

oh thank you..most honeymoons bring along their kids u know..so we tag along ;)
Nice one.

You can choose mine lola @immarojas...
...so long as you sponsor 50% of the charges 😂

pasa ko ke @tjpezlo
kayo na mag-usap ;)

Hello future ninong sa kumpil ni Raphael, ikaw na daw bahala @tjpezlo lol

of course! and you know what's playing right?

Please..some people take time to choose for a dress? Pls be sensitive in these matters.

Ahm, kiss the rain?

Queens and Kings... pawns no more!

Enjoy your experience here, hope everything goes well for you. Have a great day! You got my vote up.

:)))

Bdw i like your account nikname ! Your description as well ! :)

thanks! you too enjoy the experience...
pawns no more indeed!

Looks exciting to me... keep us updated on these things... am I allowed to join the pack?

everyone is welcome @kawal!

You are very much welcome to our @steemph pack este Family.

Wow thanks, how to join?

We are getting organised still but if you check our wall..there was a registration post for members who wants to join us ;) I think it's for us members to know where we are from to do our initiatives.

Hi there, would you like to join the Whaletank tomorrow? Check the RSVP link I can't talk tomorrow but I was just at the phone with Milan Gajdos from DECENT. I'm interested in having content which 'doesn't fit' on Steemit like music and video to earn money / curation awards on DECENT. It would be cool if Steemians could reward the authors on DECENT by not claiming 100% of the post as authors but as actual curators.

Hi @nutela, yes i'd be more than willing to join the Whaletank tomorrow I will RSVP on the link you provided. Let's discuss this project in details if you are interested. would you mind if I bring a friend along? I'm collaborating this project with @tjpezlo and I'm sure you will find more insightful thoughts from him as well.

I'm listening to you right now :-) Great that you could join, I was traveling so I couldn't attend.

So it seems we had the same or very similar idea? What I want to see in Decent is a way to _ value_ say music or video like it is on Steemit, that a part of the author awards go to the original author of the music, not only to the publisher/poster or resteemer. You see what I mean?

Thanks for the invite. I think in some ways or another the idea is there. i'm on decent slack @precise.

Cool, so shall we hold the next Whaletank together? I'll mention it in my RSVP for the next hangout!

Sounds very goood!
:-)

Very interesting incoming union. :D

I will read this later @precise ^_- but I UPVOTED! =) talk soon

Thanks @purepinay :)

nice info :D good song!!

thanks... the song is from @dreamiely

Can't wait to see this live!

soon enough! how's things ?

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