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RE: Steemit Psychology | Incredible Insights into Human Behavior!
Steemit is far from perfect, but it's still miles ahead of Facebook, Reddit and other centralized social media platforms which deliver mediocre content at best, without any incentives. I am convinced decentralization is a huge step ahead, but of course, it's not going to solve ALL problems in NO time.
Also, I believe it's not accurate to say that "centralization leads to to the corruption of a few". Those few are perhaps absolutely corrupted (due to absolute power), but the disenfranchised majority also gets corrupted over time, because getting scraps from the Big Central and emulating their corrupt ways becomes one's whole perspective, with all kinds of negative effects for the mind, imaginaton and intellect.
I also used to think it's miles away from Facebook, but now, I realize it depends upon what you're referring. In terms of monetary gain, absolutely, no question. But in terms of censorship, I have to say that both FB and Steemit live in glass houses.
FB censors people based on the centralized corruption of the few (elites). Steemit, on the other hand, facilitates censorship based on the decentralized corruption of the collective. In other words, anyone is free to penalize for whatever arbitrary reason.
Honestly, if I had to choose, Facebook has the better censorship protocol because they at least attempt transparency of their rules, and an appeals process exists to forward concerns to a "qualified" agency.
With Steemit, you could just be dealing with a racist asshole -- by way of example -- who is unwilling to change their animus.
I believe in Facebook protocols as much I believe in Reddit protocols. That means zero or nearly so. Reddit's CEO himself deleted and edited comments which he deemed unsatisfactory or too critical of Reddit or himself and I don't have one shred of evidence that Facebook 'protocols' are any better.
That may be true, but it doesn't take away from the glass house argument. On Steemit, anyone with wealth and power can downvote you practically out of the system. Imagine if the alt-right or religious-fascist groups came aboard Steemit, and played nice until they became whales. I highly doubt that I, through NO fault of my own, would last a single second.