RE: The Past We Had Internet, Now We Have Steem
In a blockchain, and by the nature of how it is built, it will always be hard for censorship, since the norm of blockchain dev's and enthusiast is to see that any blockchain system should be opensource, and that it has capacity for decentralization. If proven otherwise, many blockchain users will leave that kind of platform.
In the case of steemit inc. it has only controls the steemit blogsite, I still believe that the API , nodes will be censorship free and will continue its development into decentralization, granted that all users and as represented by dynamic and proactive witnesses will steer the platform towards the goal of a new internet.
The internet, and all its existing protocol will improve also, but will remain mostly as it is today.
BUT on top of the internet, is the blockchain network(s).
Many dev's out there will always push for decentralization, and the core of blockchain itself is indeed decentralization.
What is my suggestions;
First, always support blockchain projects who are opensource.
Second, member yourself in a blockchain community, and help that community towards the realization of decentralization.
Lastly, learn anything that will enrich your experience in the blockchain, example, learn to code, learn to market your blockchain, use it in everyday life, invest using fiat(as it increase your stake on the blockchain) and don't stop learning.
Let's us all be vigilant. This is a new frontier. We are all pioneers on this land called decentralization of information. The wheel is turning, and it will no longer be stopped, because man, by all its essence will always wanted to be free.
SteemIt is highly centralized. A few big accounts get most of the votes and attention. New accounts rarely get upvotes.
SteemCleaners is doing a great job identifying spam and @cheetah calls out copied content. The accounts that run afoul of these tools have an experience similar to the shadow-banning and outright censorship that people experience on other sites.
(Quite frankly, I love cheetah and SteemCleaner's efforts to clean up spam and phishing attacks).
The block chain is great because it provides a low cost alternative revenue stream. But we are foolish to ignore the web at large for the delusion that the blockchain is providing a censorship free platform.
I don’t mind @cheetah and @steemcleaners . They are a good way to remind content creators to be the best as they can, copying others without proper citation is bad, and as we are intelligent enough to correct ourselves.
We can self regulate.
These are just bots, still we the human reading the content will judge if a content is worth our time.
And the time we spent, these are value, the gold within the steem blockchain.
The content is the pickaxe for digging the gold.
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my two cents worth on the cheetah bot
https://steemit.com/ai/@redpossum/why-i-hate-bots
Thanks for sharing this link @redpossum
Will check it out right away :)
Piotr
But which digital currency does not have a centralized currency? Bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin, in short, they all have few accounts with an absurdly large balance, centralizing a good part of the coins.
The problem is not the dispersion of the coins, but rather, if you can speak what you really want. You see, even though the accounts are large, you can criticize them without losing your voice on the platform, something that does not exist in other social networks.
speaking about PoW, actually a lot of mining pools can provide 51% attack, so its hard to talk about safety, trust and decentralization in the moment, when our assets are in the hands of certain amount of online gurus.
speaking about PoS, as you said we easily find few accounts with an absurdly large balance, centralizing huge part of coins and power
I dont think we ever had a chance to get to know each other. Great comment @cubapl
Are you Polish?
Cheers
Piotr
no we have never met and yes, I am Polish ;)
Tak tez myslalem gdy zobaczylem Twoj username :)
Udanego roku 2019 @cubapl :)
Agree with you on that one @yintercept
You nailed it.
Yours
Piotr
Totally a favor,
The APIs will be decentralized or at least that's what we're expecting. People are increasingly wanting decentralized models, so I believe it is a matter of time before we can secure the hegemony of decentralization without Steemit Inc.
Amazing comment @guruvaj
Aren't those projects usually struggling financially?
I love the sound of it. Being pioneer isn't usually very profitable. But it may be andventure of our lifetime haha :)
Yours
Piotr