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RE: The Past We Had Internet, Now We Have Steem
I agree the web at large is a more robust and valuable resource than SteemIt or the blockchain.
There are millions of real businesses and real community service organizations on the web. These organizations are actively involved in communities and are actually doing things.
The blockchain is a fantasy land that is notoriously divorced from local communities.
It is worth pursuing .... but should not be pursued at the cost of the web at large or the local community.
When I wrote about the death of the internet, I meant how we are currently observing it.
We see that large corporations have the power to censor and prevent people from speaking whatever they want. Here at Steem we do not have this because of its decentralized nature. I believe that the internet as we know it is dying for a totally new and decentralized Internet.
Unfortunately the desire to "create a new internet" seems to lead to greater centralization.
For example the "app" phenomena was an experiment in creating a new internet.
Smartphones have a limited storage capacity. So people download a very small number of apps. These apps have the predictable effect of limiting the number of voices that people encounter.
Even though SteemIt and "dapps" are on decentralized servers. They have the effect of limiting the number of sites that people actually visit.
Dapps create a paradox where people are using the term "decentralization" to create a new paradigm that is actually more centralized that the web at large.
Sorry, I didn't understand, the dApps are doing a decentralization or a centralization?
I think @yintercept means that, while dapps are running on decentralized servers, they have a relatively small user base as compared with the internet as a whole.
So using them effectively limits your audience, as well as the number of posts you can see, simply because they have not yet been widely adopted.
Which is entirely true.
In that way I agree... But adoption is not a huge problem since people can migrate to this platform, even if they are concern about the privacy and censorship from another social media.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi @crescendoofpeace, @robertoueti, @yintercept
Wow. What an interesting conversation you guys have here :)
Damn. Steemit may not be censorship free but still this is the best platform to engage with people I know.
Cheers
Piotr