RE: Rise of the Steem platform
Not sure if it is rising actually, a year or so ago content was much much better.
The blockchain level doesn't care, which is my point.
It's not about payment per say, people create great content completely for free on other platforms.
I think that most of the content on other platforms is shite :D it is just that most of it is never going to be seen at all.
And it still might be happening, smt's are a great launchpad, but i'm afraid as soon as any of these projects gain traction, they might flip the coin and migrate their token to any other existing or yet to be created blockhains.
Yep, they might. This is why Steem as a community has to advance and grow to become a community that is both large enough and willing enough to support the applications on the platform, and those applications have to be compelling - not just offer a token.
But steemit and it's copy papste spinoffs are dearly broken fot now.
The spin/offs are lazy developing, not compelling. There are a lot of other types of appications that can be built.
Night mate.
I agree that blockchain level does not care. It shouldn't by design.
I read tons of useful articles on medium. I follow a lot of interesting discussions on Redit, i watch many educational videos on YouTube, i admire zillions of great photographs on 500px. So there is no way i can agree that content on other platforms is shite, sorry on this mate.
Developer community is great on STEEM. As for the content, discovery of good content is extreeeeemely time consuming, difficult and not intuitive that results in voting circles by design.
Do not get me wrong, i love the concept of STEEM, just as and user platform (steemit and others) is not there yet, by far.