Facebook vs steemit
Facebook has been around for a while now and have been the social media boss. Well with lots of recent activities in the social media industry. Data leak and loads of control and controversial laws. Blookchain on the other hand is the feature and has got its social platform too. Decentralised and best of all "rewarding"
I’m currently using steem, more than facebook. Its really great idea. Steem have power to unseat the social media king facebook. Still lot lags when compared to facebook.
Blockchain is future, Like bitcoin (and alt coins) may make banks obsolete. Steem have the power to make social media companies obsolete. Its not easy but not impossible either.
Why we need Decentralised / open source Social media
Facebook is great. But it becoming very dangerous. It can influence billions of people for their own greedy. It makes money by selling our private data. In the age of facebook, its easy for corporate and government to influence and change peoples opinion. We unknowingly gave too much power to facebook. Its not good. Like we separated the state from church in many countries. Its very much important and urgent to separate the corporate and government from people. But still the community power is massive than facebook. Steem is good initiative but still long way to go.
Pros :
Already good engagement with some 10K+ people.Rewarding the content creator and consumer with steem dollars is a great idea.You own the data. And better privacy and ads free.Code is fully opensource.Decentralised.
Cons :
Lot of features missing. (likes, chats, pages, groups etc). Current app as mere discussion forum.UI/UX is not so great.Money reward alone not a great idea to keep the users engaged.
Things to do:
Copy all or at least most of the important features from facebook. Even copy the same design and colors. So migrated users wont feel anything different.Easy migration tool from facebook.More regulations to keep away the traders (buy and selling steem) who bring 0 or negative value to the steemit.Reward the users who help switch their friends from facebook.Build real community. Community is powerful than $350 billion corporate.Branding and marketting.Accessibility, from multiple devices and platforms.More rewards for influencers, developers, contributors. and users help to switch their friends.
Steemit of course a social media that can pay you when people like your is the best. Actually i personally have forgotten my facebook password.
Now that make two of us. I can remember when last i updated a status on facebook. But during my exams i still try to make out tme for writing new contents on steemit. And having really nice people like @bobaphet helping minnows here makes it even more awesome.
Thank you brother :)
Peace.
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Great post. Summarizes well
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A great article, and spot on.
In addition to this, there is some insidious programming (brainwashing) going on in the feed algorithms, showing people who fit into different categories, "news" to shape their realities/biases.
steemit is still in its infancy. What it will become, has not yet been conceived.
Peace.
You are right. even Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple once used it as a statement saying "Apple will never turn its customers into commodity". This is really a whole lot of eye opening for those who are ready for their eyes to be opened.
"I’m currently using steem, more than facebook"
Same here. Results on steem are way better than ever I could achieve on fb. I also believe that steem will be major social media platform and it's a must to be here if anyone is a blogger.
Yea. Every blogger need to be on steemit
Indeed, that's a right place to be :)