"no advertising manipulators using mindfuck techniques"

Sometimes we lose sight of how pioneering, and liberating, this platform is. It is streets ahead.

This is the early adopter beta phase of Steem's history. Steem, or something just like it, is unquestionably the future. For the reasons you say.

I feel like I'm in Bladerunner, watching "C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate." Except our memories won't "be lost in time like tears in rain." They will be stored immutably on the blockchain!

Exciting! :)