RE: The person behind your Steem
Disconnecting authority. LOLz.
Nothing is easier to use for tracking, profiling, silo’ing, and connecting the dots than an immutable fully transparent blockchain. Combined with the data gathered from other platforms or with other tools (Steem-apps using Google Analytics for example)... reputation management is going to be schadenfreude a beeyatch for many who now think they’re anonymous.
And hopefully won’t bite others just as hard in the bottom cheeks.
Steem is an alternative economy and we are seeing always more initial steps towards “reputation management”. Whether that be oracles or the more anonymous User Authority... you are what you say on here and rather sooner than later recruiters and HR departments will have also this profile data for you.
Because... spin up a node and thanks for the data. Forget about the fish.
That isn't the disconnection from authority I am talking about here. It is the content drive of centralized authority that makes people behave in certain ways. Having decentralized control over apps, interfaces etc means that there is the ability to continually evolve without being forced into various boxes. This will mean that there will be more discourse between points rather than dictation.
That will not change.
Decentralized “control” will evolve the same way Web2.0 (user generated content) did.
What Steemit is now and also in this post was blogging 2003-2009 (2005?).
History repeats itself and the internet isn’t different to that. It is even easy to state that until fiduciary duties came in play Google, Reddit, and Facebook were our biggest defendants.
Two companies alone mine 60% of BTC, with how much Steem is on market how easy do you think is it for those who want to burst that “decentralized control” bubble?
But I know what you mean and I fully agree. This place, like almost every other community (online) is what we make of it and will mean to us what we make its value (to ourselves).
Yet, let’s stay fully aware of realities and not be surprised once again. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was a non-scandal/non-event since long known since 2013 (2012?).