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RE: Convergence: The Key To STEEM's Massive Explosion In The Near Future: Part 3
All the points you make here are valid, however, my concern is that the average user simply doesn't care about them. Facebook has the power to remove accounts and stop people from using their service, but how often do they actually do it? I personally don't know of anybody that has happened to, and I don't think the average user has run into that as a problem either. Smart people clearly understand that a decentralised model is better, but until there really becomes an obvious problem with censorship and closed accounts I don't think this will be a reason for the masses to switch.
I think the closing of accounts tends to occur more frequently on YouTube over facebook.
The monitoring of information, selling of it, and the manipulation of content, that is starting to garner headlines.
It does take a long time for the masses to wake up...that is certainly a fact. Nevertheless, I believe each headline is simply another chink in their armor.
facebook creeps me out how accurate it finds ppl that i possibly know very creepy...
also nextdoor is another social app i refuse to use...
Fortunately, I am not familiar with nextdoor....
Yes FB is very good at the tracking and surveillance game...in fact they mastered it.
Of course people putting every aspect of their lives up there certainly helps.
nextdoor is another level of facebook...some of the founders of nextdoor are former NSA even more creepy...and your right ppl put everything on facebook pics of guns filming crimes...its like ppl have lost there minds....
I am glad I missed it.
I do know of some people who have had content sensored or removed on fb. In the long run, the people will eventually chase the money. They always have and always will... and it will happen quickly.
Yeh that's right, the money will be a bigger incentive for sure. We just need to make sure that people don't come and abuse the system
It could use a little "tweeking!" But it's all good in the long run.
I've been censored on Facebook before and I don't actively use it anymore for that reason. I was banned from Periscope after my very first show on there and my main channel on YouTube was targeted and terminated (with 30k subscribers) because of the Google Gestapo. What this author is talking about is very real and things must change.
Fortunately independent content creators like us can immediately turn to Steemit and DTube and actually have a chance at making a living doing what we do. Both platforms need a lot of work as far as being able to browse for content but the future is looks bright here atm. I don't know if I agree in the upside of STEEM in particular, but I hope you're right. I'm holding mine in my wallet until I see the price multiply like SBD did recently, but I'm not holding my breath for that. Upvoted and resteemed.
Just out of interest, what was the subject of your content and what did you post that got you banned/censored?
It appears from his page that it is illuminati/conspiracy/David Icke type stuff.
The content really doesn't matter. I know big YouTubers have been hit because of high earnings on Google Adsense. My account has not been hit that hard because I have a modest amount of subscribers. It is the big money earners that have been "pinched" for their revenues. I think YouTube's profit margins were under attack and they claimed "family friendly" as a reason for the cut-back in advertising revenues. I have my doubts... it's all about profit. Now I recently noticed that Google Adsense will no longer be providing YouTube earnings analytics on the Adsense site come early next year. Something is going on!
I know of several people who this has happened to.