RE: People Are Going To Be Begging For Blockchain: Another Day Another Hack: STEEM Will Profit
I have followed your posts for few days and read the preachings for STEEM as a solution to all the problems with Facebook. It would be more interesting to read if you had a more balanced view on things, like how STEEM is using similar incentives to grow the user base.
I cant see how a STEEM blockchain based platform will stop people from harvesting other peoples data to gain more power over others. As i have written before, Steemit and the other front ends are collecting and sharing same kind of data about its users as all the other big players.
What would be different if one day all FB users migrated to STEEM blockchain? Once you have more users, you will have more people trying to sell you stuff you don't need to live a healthy life.
I fear it could be worse than what we have today, if each action you make on this platform is prices in $.
Every STEEM user would become, a little bit of: CEO, user, content creator, promoter, advertiser, consumer, bank, analyst, developer .....
How will people find time to reflect what really makes them happy and worth living for?
We have been feeding the Facebook monster for years, whats the difference feeding a new?
Just a thought
The difference is the front ends are just interfaces...it isnt where the real value lies. Notice I say STEEM is the solution, not Steemit. Steemit is a poor competitor to Facebook (Reddit perhaps but not Facebook) because of the lack of features. That could change but it seems they are determined to go after Reddit.
Under your scenario, if all of Facebook migrated over here, I surmise you would have hundreds, if not thousands, of interfaces pop up. This means people will have choices which one they use. Today, we are basically stuck with 3....that wil change over time.
Plus with blockchain, one of the next generation moves will be the establishment of digital IDs for people. The governments will hate it but people will not be tied to their data like they are today. Down the road we will all have a digital ID that is used to surf these blockchains, meaning we control it. There will be a key which will allow us to sell it for medical research as an example.
And yes people will be, essentially, their own CEOs, so I agree with you on this point. However, it will not only be STEEM but most any activity that they will be paid for. Web browsing, exercise, eating the right food, watching movies...everything will be incentivized (most of that is already just we dont get paid for it). So yes people will have money coming in from many different areas.
And that is when people will be able to move up Maslow hierarchy and focus on some of the other more important things. Under the scarcity model, most of us are relegated to concentrating a large portion of our lives just to getting enough to sustain ourselves. World wide, most people are failing at that. Even in the Western cultures, we see this trend starting to take hold although it is partially hidden by the massive debt that people are given.
The advantage to this people cannot develop another Facebook using all of Facebook's information. People would lose all their friends, posts, and whatever else they did on there. On STEEM, if you develop an interface that I use, I still have all my friends, posts, and comments. All that is still accessible. Even using something like steemd.com enables me to access the information although it is very basic in design.
Ultimately, with enough development of things put on this blockchain, STEEM will be its own ecosystem where people work, interact, shop, and do other things. We are moving towards a digital world. Do not be surprised to see many of the online activities we engage upon now all on this blockchain. We are already seeing it with social media. There are also auctions similar to ebay, a decentralized exchange for trading (granted only 3 currencies traded at the moment), and Visa cards paid for in STEEM. Granted, these are all in the early stages but it does show the possibilities of what can develop on here.
Thanks for this detailed reply on how you see the future of the STEEM based platform evolving.
I just cant see much of a difference compared to the old model but with a slower public decentralized database that anyone with enough knowledge will exploit to suppress others.
Just the fact that there is a US corporation behind this project which is governed by US law does not give me much confidence in a sustainable future.
from the Privacy Policy page:
https://steemit.com/privacy.html
There is a US Corporation behind Steemit...STEEM is not incorporated.
Where is D.Tube out of? Where is Zappl? Where is Appics? Where is Dsound? Where is Busy?
Simply because one interface is out of the US, that doesnt mean it will remain. In fact, bitshares.org just moved their operations out of the US to Thailand since the laws there are less restrictive for what they are trying to do.
I am sorry that you feel that. It really sucks to not have hope for a sustainable future.
Fortunately, there are millions of people who do not agree with your assessment.
Sure but no matter which interface you use any content on the STEEM blockchain is accessible through Steemit and in effect has to follow the US laws, data mining and surveilance.
I don't know about bitshares.org and their issues, but having to move to Thailand does not makes any of my arguments less important to consider.
Which statement do you mean people do not agree with?
Just because million people use STEEM does not mean its any better than the current broken business model that Facebook uses.
What is posted on the STEEM blockchain through other interfaces is accessible through Steemit but. But if it is on the blockchain, it is accessible to anyone who wants to look...that is the point of blockchain, it is open.
However they do not have the same surveillance as Facebook in terms of where you go, the ability to follow your moves around,
Many have confidence STEEM has a sustained future.
If you think this is such a broken business model like Facebook, why are you honestly here?
Who are they? Every move on STEEEM based platforms use same tracking.
Following your posts you are the one suggesting Facebook's model is broken, i'm just commenting that STEEM blockchian is no different. Same incentives, same surveillance, if not worse.
Im here to learn, why are you here?
This pretty much answers my comment as well.
Different ways to use steam, not just Steemit.
I saw an article yesterday that asked us to stop holding and start building. Never have I wanted to learn programming more. Its this want that gives me the confidence to keep reading those books I don't quite understand.