People Whine About Youtube Censorship... But is Steemit Really Any Better?
6 years ago in #steemit by rulesforrebels (61)
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It is certainly a tough topic in general. I feel like when Trevon and Craig came back with all their ponzi money and started baking cakes and showing pictures of their kids people in a way were fed up with it and the only reason they achieved those power levels was by being leading promoters in the BitConnect Ponzi. So suddenly they are taking out of the reward pool with money there were enriched with by promoting something that everyone who was an upstanding person in crypto was saying was a SCAM and trying to warn people.
To me it became double dipping and now Trevon is back trying to say he is sorry and that he treated STEEM like a $5 hoe. I really hope he doesn't get hardly any support but the fact of the matter is he has enough power himself and with his alternative accounts like @lordgod and some others that he can keep drawing from the reward pool. It starts to get annoying to see his stuff for me at least.
Yeah ultimately I think anarchism and everyone doing WTF they want just doesn't work in real life regardless of how utopian some people think that may be. There do need to be rules and standards and best practices and all that, I think my message is I would just caution people to really think about what and why and how htey are doing things when they decide to go after someone or flag someone because things can very easily spiral into a situation where we ourselves are worse than Youtube in terms of the types of gripes people have about them
The situation with the motivations for people to comment and post on Instagram and twitter and YouTube comments get me in a way and the situation on here. I have seriously thought about the situation for two years since I first got on Steemit.
I'm not going to lie I recently posted a video on my crypto channel called "Don't Buy EOS" That has been doing better than my other recent videos and of course I embedded it on Steemit as well and made a little but event though I'm not monetized on YouTube I still get sucked into answering comments and enjoying the engagement over there compared to here. People just don't want to be over here for some reason and it is hard to exactly put our fingers on it.
I also think that part of the reason people really keep pushing on Youtube is there is always that carrot out there that it does have the viewership that if things worked out a person could get really big and famous over there. STEEM does have its own culture and "celebrities" but I feel like the YouTubers who got big were able to transcend YouTube fame and are just famous in general.
Here's my thing with Steemit, I enjoy Steemit, but not in the same way I enjoy Youtube or Reddit. If I'm being perfectly honest I come here to see my friends comments ie you @brianphobos @kenanqhd, @mitchyb @tolkatore and maybe a dozen or so other people. Outside of you guys I don't mean to be rude but I don't really give a shit about anyone else's content, or I should say very rarely does something get me truly engaged.
I think this comes down to 2 main reasons....
It's hard to find content ie the search function isn't great so it's a challenge to find something to consume. Its sorta like having netflix vs cable. With cable I can flip channels and eventually find something that interests me. With Netflix my gf and I can sit and flip through stuff for 45 minutes and still not be watching anything.
I think the focus of original content on Steemit kinda hurts the platform. On reddit there's subreddits for everything and reddit users don't have to create 100% of the content. Because Reddit is about curation I can find something interesting on the internet and post it and people enjoy that. Steemit has put a focus on original content which don't get me wrong is nice, but at the same time were reliant on a relatively small number of people to create content on thousands of different interests and topics. If nobody on here makes documentaries for example there's one huge area that I enjoy that I'll never see on here where as on a platform like reddit I can go to r/documentaries and people are posting all these great docs they find. Another thing is because we can only earn for 5 days there's not much incentive to make longform content that takes a lot of time money or effort.
When I talk about how I interact with Steemit versus say a Youtube or Reddit I'll watch Youtube for pure entertainment instead of tv or a movie. I'll watch Youtube laying in bed before I go to sleep. I'll start watching Youtube and notice 5 hours has passed and I just go from one recommended video to another.
I'll go on reddit and look at cute animal pictures on r/aww or go to r/cryptocurrency and read peoples questions and answers or interesting news stories, I'll spend a ton of time on there learning.
With Steemit I come on here to almost put in my daily work, not to say I don't enjoy it, but I will say I don't come here purely for entertainment and I've never found myself spending an hour or even multiple hours just consuming content after piece of content on here.
Have you ever tried to build up an instagram account so you almost act as a human bot just scrolling down the list hearting every photo or making comments just for the sake of making comments. Sometimes I feel that way about steemit.
I don't say this to talk shit, I actually really like this platform, I genuinely do enjoy but but not in the same way. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad things, I guess sometimes something isn't good or bad it just is or its just different. I do think we have a long way to go however to make this site engaging for your average internet consumer browsing content and not just for people who want to play the game and not just for content creators.
It makes perfect sense what you are saying. There have certainly been entertaining moments on Steemit but it revolves more around internal drama like @jerrybanfield folding himself in half like a lawn chair and giving himself blowjobs. Or things about @craig-grant and @trevonjb
It doesn't come so much from someone creating something that would potentially be popular no matter what platform they put it on. That is one of the reasons I have made some of the original memes that could rep Steem but be popular other places.
I think one of the reasons I get so frustrated with STEEM is because I have been so engaged in it for 2 years now and I sort of see all the BS. I have been really frustrated with YouTube in a similar way in the past but I have never really been that frustrated with something like Twitter because I have used it sparingly at times and most of the time I just kind of think it is a time waster and a tough way to really push traffic to my other stuff. I just think it is kind of stupid for most things but the one thing Twitter seems to be ok at is getting updates about crypto related stuff for me.
Awesome video man. People need to realize that there is no "sanctuary" where everything is suddenly better. People were always raving about how cryptos are decentralized or that steemit cannot censor people and look. No matter where you go, you will have to face your problems sooner or later. A new circumstance will not rid you of that issue permanently. Sooner or later, whatever you were running away from will catch up to you.
Have you seen the movie "The Experiment" with Forest Whitaker? People participate in an experiment in a penitentiary where some of them are prisoners and some are prison guards. That movie pretty much sums up how humans behave in certain environments. It is very similar to the story you told about the cops in Mexico.
Hey buddy, yeah it got me thinking, this is a really interesting issue. With Steemit in a way it's self governing so in essence we will be the ones in charge the same way Youtube/Adsense/ABC is in charge of Youtube's policies and such.
I think it's important people keep in mind what decentralization and a lack of central control is all about. In some sense yeah there has to be rules and there has to be a way of enforcing them but this site seems to me to want to run as free and open as possible so I think we need to be very careful about how we decide to enforce rules and policies and at least according to how I view most people on Steemits attitudes, I think most people want a hands off approach as much as possible.
I havn't seen the movie the experiment but that sounds interesting I'll have to check it out.
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