RE: WOW!!! I found a much better decentralised social media network guys!!! It's better than Steem!!!
Hard to blame anyone. Linear just has made it rational to do whatever that most people are doing now. It's just a different ball game. I think it's understandable as well. Like if I feel like I wanna take care of whatever community I like, wouldn't I have less of an influence from where I started if I don't join in maximising myself now? I definitely feel the compulsion to go this route seeing that I've been going from 1% self-voting to about 2%ish now, which is nowhere near the norm of 10%-90% now. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong as people are still free to exercise their vote however they see fit. Steem as a currency is working fine. It's just that it's unfortunate that the profit maximisation move now is to somehow acquire most of one's votes back to the self.
I just published an article about the importance of accountability in business, you may enjoy the read.
From my personal point of view, Steem's core problem is the lacking accountability.
Most of the time the community's demands are not taken seriously, and priorities seem to be mainly assigned according to profit and not according to growth.
How long are we waiting for the community feature now? One year? It was in January 2017 when it was announced for the first time. No other target in the Roadmap 2017 was celebrated more by the community than this one.
I perfectly understand when people start looking for something else now.
Obviously a whitepaper is nothing we can seriously measure and only time will show how promising the competing apps will effectively be. But then tell me how much do we know about SMTs? :-)
ONO will launch in less than 24 hours btw.
People are enthusiastic about the things they believe in.
exactly
we believe comedy will greatly help bring excitement and retain talent in Steem, but only with participation and that happens when we can get leaders, good people, and big fishes willing to help make it exciting
i like your respond above, tells me you have a lovely head on your shoulders