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RE: Steem, The Experiment.. New Questions
Having invested a good chunk of money into this platform, I understand where you are coming from. Even more so I find it really hard to answer the question: "what problem is steem trying to fix or improve?" and if you can answer that question, you have the secondary question of, "does it even need to be fixed or how much can you really improve?
All tough questions that don't work out really well with steemit's current usage is. That's the real working point if you ask me. What I do see, is steem blockchain being used for everything BUT blogging, sort of a public access blockchain that you have access to and can do as you please (the whole point of SMTs really).
Are we still waiting for that???
Let me test out a few thoughts on what I thought prior to Ned's meeting.
Problems we are trying to solve:
Providing a place for people to communicate without PC standards, censorship and selling our data.
Provide Monetization to Content Creators. (Youtube modelish)
Educating in a real-world situation the masses on crypto. (Look at how many people, even non-technical people have learned to earn, use and trade crypto)
Now, how do we monetize that?
I don't even know if SMTs are still a thing. :)
I dont think you can ever create a sterile environment without PC standards. Anytime you gather people together, you'll have someone pointing out the PC shit going on and making a fuss about it. nature of the beast.
Providing monetization for content creators is great, until we realize that there has to be special interest from the person providing the money. Focused money is the only way to be paid to create content, save for the few people who are really good at entertaining (think the casey neistats and Jenny Marbles).
part of the issue with that concept is that MOST PEOPLE have nothing significantly important to share. and even if we did, we dont have the skill to deliver the message. Which is fine! But seeing the truth means that blogging is not a community thing.
There must be more!
What else is there?????
DPOS is realistically dealing with scalability, in my opinion. Put a fee on transactions and we can all go home. 😎
But, hey, the blogging/social media thing is the coolest dapp on the chain!
I guess that might be the case. Scaling goes hand in hand with profit and costs. But if I paid for scaling costs for 2 years up front and there is still no profit in 2 years, then scaling wasnt the issue. Usability is.
It's a great question, and one I have asked before. The funny thing is... Although I can't clearly answer the question, believe there is an answer.
Letting it stew for a bit.
I believe theres an answer, and its sort of brewing. At the end of the day, its all about the dollars. How can someone benefit and profit off the network is the million dollar question.