we (Steem) will gain from those networks directly or indirectly
Can you elaborate on this?
As a steemit member and someone who's on Steemit to stay for the next 10 years( yes I do mean it), I'd like to see Golos switching from creating their own currency and essentially reinventing steem, to instead build their site on top of Steem block chain, the way Squeek.io did it.
Yes, this is essentially what everyone is upset about. Rather than building on top of the Steem blockchain and creating an "Russian Steemit" like interface, they are forking and creating their own currency and blockchain separate from Steem.
The gain elaboration from a Steemit benefit standpoint( no offense to Golos), as @hipster mentions it, a set percentage of coins will be given back to the Steemit community as a direct impact. The golos community can test stuff instead of us, so we can learn from their mistakes and they can learn from ours as well leveraging both platforms to become better. This one is a bit controversial and mean In a way so I'm sorry for that, but this would mean that there are more rewards left on the Steemit platform to be distributed to "non Russian" users. Also people like you and me, we can hire translators to translate our steemit posts and post them on Golos, profiting on both platforms, but again Golos users can do the same. Also you can use the Golos earned money to power up more Steem...
While the translation bridges can and will happen, one of the things they are aiming at is to make Golos unattractive to non Russian speaking investors. While they will likely still participate, the idea is to have a more level field, where the rewards are more even. Steemit is slowly going in that direction, and I have no reason to doubt Dan's words that by the end of this year the problem of skewed payouts would be solved, but for niche communities like Russian one, that seemed to be insufficient, especially with that huge hole in the Russian marketplace. Other than Chinese another clone that could be expected is Indian. While most of the Indian internet users do speak English, they do prefer Hindi & their local languages.
And yeah, as far as I understand from talking to them, that a lot of innovation that would happen at Golos would be sent upstream to Steemit Inc, and that means all of us here. So while the move is controversial, I beleive it would benefit Steemit in the long run. While I will participate in Golos, my main attention would still be in Steemit, and I would be investing part of my payouts there (however large or small they would be) into Steem Power, and I am sure that there would still be a sizable community of Russian speakers here. That is why @rusteemitblog (of which I am part of the core team) is going to continue our efforts at translating the changeloks, and most interesting texts by @ned, @dantheman, @infovore, and whoever else gives us their blessing and is interesting to the Russian speaking community. I suspect it is time we do some work on translating some of Golos related things into English.
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Great comment, I think that Golos will benefit both platforms and that not all Russian speaking people will leave Steemit, but many will, again as I mention before, who knows, at one point in time a Russian whale could be born that would reward the Russian written posts here on Steemit, that may cause people to leave Golos. On both sides, Golos means more opportunities, better platforms for everyone, more investment options...etc Thanks to the additional info @hipster provided, I might toss a coin or two on project Golos, since I think It has good potential from a investor standpoint.
Interesting points. I like how you covered this from a balanced and objective perspective. Upvoted :)