@ned Announced Destiny: New Company, New Interface!!!
We got a bit more clarification regarding a couple of comments that @ned left a couple weeks ago.
Indeed, he is working on a project that is a new interface for the Steem blockchain. This project is completely separate from Steemit.com. In fact, there is a totally new corporate structure which is going to developing this. It will involve new people in an effort to bring about a vision he had for a long time.
And what is that vision?
Make Communities Great!!!
It appears this will not only be a team initiative but a community driven one. All will be invited to the new project. Steemit will remain the one producing source code for the blockchain. From the sounds of it, Steemit.com will not receive a great deal of attention.
Essentially, Destiny is going to receive the focus as the main interface being promoted.
https://busy.org/@ned/new-behind-the-scenes-project
It is impossible to determine, at this time, how all of this will unfold. One thing is for certain, Steemit is responsible for the source code for the blockchain only. That interface is going to be left to die a slow death.
Personally, I have no problem with this. It never seemed to me that the development team cared all that much about Steemit.com. The application did not receive much attention over the past year and now we see why. It was simply a placeholder until better applications arrived.
Now, there is another project in the works, most likely being built from the ground up. Destiny is going to be a completely different interface with a clear separation from Steemit.
Obviously, we are all left to speculate what, or more accurately, how "make communities great" will transpire. Without additional information, we are left to guess as to the plans or layout of things. Will they create an interface that is designed to go after Facebook? Knowing the fascination with Reddit, perhaps Destiny will be a Reddit on steroids.
One thing we know for certain: communities is a big part of the Hivemind project that is being worked on. I surmise that Ned is going to apply a great deal of what is taking place there with the features of that upgrade.
Being a completely different project and company from Steemit, I will guess that a Smart Media Token also could accompany this new interface. Could this be the Good People's Token that he mentioned a number of months back? It would make sense to combine the two.
To me, this is all very exciting. I am quickly becoming an application junkie on here. The shift in focus to the different applications from a blogging based chain is monumental. From a marketing perspective, the potential user base is exploding with each new application. We are getting close to being able to target billions of users with blockchain based applications.
This also might explain why Ned powered down some of his SP a couple months back. It does appear that he had a destination for the money and perhaps funding a new startup was what the money was tagged for.
Either way, we are looking at another exciting project starting to be developed.
Each week, the list of what is taking place keeps growing.
The next 6 months are going to be a lot of fun on here.
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It is the perfect time to be more active, accumulate more Steem Power and be ready for March 2019.
I agree. I think the time we spend being active and collecting STEEM now will be very worthwhile (monetarily) in a year or two from now.
Too much centralization.
To be honest, we even should challenge (via code pull requests or alternatively via alt steem software) the de facto status of Steemit Inc. as blockchain developer.
While I think short term this can be a positive, and Ned has his head screwed on positively for the future of this community, long term that is not healthy. And we should carefully consider how we feel and express ourselves about that.
No doubt too much reliance on STINC for development , I hear people say all the times that even if Ned wasn't around STEEM will keep moving forward , I can't see that happen as things stand right now.
Centralization in turn is driven by the initial Ninja mine where people got truck loads of tokens, such is life I guess.
I’m fine with the ninja mine. I wasn’t here and even if I was i wouldn’t have been able to object because I couldn’t create a consensus majority against it. Maybe I wouldn’t even have objected either.
After that it is one to accept or to leave the platform over. I still believe in STEEM and Steem does work (as intended). The ninja mine currently even drives a lot of the existing economy too. Potentially even contributed to the current value. Potentially.
If further that stake is used as the sword of Damocles, that’s our to object and organize against if we wish so. But what was was and we should just live with that and adapt to integrate such in our operations.
I am not fine with ninja mine but accept it as part of the STEEM origination , it's mention was to link the the root cause of centralization.
STINC accounts have too much gravitational pull and ned has been powering down to even that out but it will take due time.
The root cause of centralization is us. Because it seems that we celebrate it rather than hold accountable.
Now, it’s difficult. I honestly would love Ned to be more hands-on (or visible) a leader from the front and build more community as well as spearhead the marketing because he is CEO of the company who rolled out the centralized initial shopping window. I keep referring to the DASH community and also Blockpass, both of which have “centrally organized community management”.
I believe that can be positive short-term, short to short-mid-term even. But that doesn’t mean that we should only celebrate such centralization. With great power comes great responsibility and I think so far Steemit Inc have been good guardians. But we have to make sure they stay exactly that and that also means holding accountable and not de facto blowing up sun where the sun don’t shine.
As for his downpowering, I think that may have been a fully legit move as those may have been considered vesting shares (by Steemit Inc. Board). Since Steemit is an Inc, I would expect that has been a legal process and every year he has x which vest and he can DP. Is it a good thing to show the community? Not necessarily, definitely not without transparent justification but alas... we don’t know the what nor why.
Some CEO driven ( to outside world) STEEM hype and news cycle drive is overdue !!
It’s a thin line to find and walk between ‘centralized’ and ‘community driven’, but in early years a benevolent dictator isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Many open source communities operate best when the benevolent dictator is present and hands on. Proof: WordPress.
It is indeed a delicate balance..
Great info... Thanks very informative.
Seriously I see Steemit as the most important part here that deserves all the care. It is the Mother of Steem and no.1 that needs attention. As you said, we dont know how this will unfold, but the future will tell :)
To say the truth, I don't care that much about SteemIt.com since they've changed it to the ugly green skin. I've been using https://busy.org instead... and now I'm also enjoying http://esteem.app
The Side by Side Editor + Preview of eSteem makes it all the difference. It saves a lot of time!!!!!
I am hoping that with the new interface they are thinking more about mobility and its use on mobile devices with actual apps as well. That was a key launching pad for the likes of Facebook and Twitter and could provide more growth as most user access the internet with their mobile devices these days so the user interface will be key!
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