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RE: 1st on dTube: Interview w/ Steemit witness Luke Stokes, talked SBD $1 peg, crypto, much more...
I hate to put it this way, but Luke is a large part of why I have put any level of trust in the steem currency and by extension the steemit platform. Having to rely on the benevolence of steemit inc. or any of the other central actors does not instill confidence, but Luke's participation makes me feel like there's at least one decent person involved. That's not to say that I know much about the other actors(or even who all of them are), but I just have not gotten the same feeling from them.
So, I hate to hang that on you, but that's how I see it.
Hah! Wow. No pressure, eh?
I completely understand how you feel. After I went to Steemfest2 and put this post together, I felt a lot better about the whole system and the developers keeping it going. There are still systemic risks involved for sure, but I do think we have something pretty amazing here and my hope is it will continue to grow and decentralize. That's my hope.
Thanks for sharing that post. A lot of my misgivings are related to my own personal unrealistic expectations(of which I've more recently reconciled with reality) about the potential for a sort of utopian society built on this new technology and the disconnect with some of the ugly displays of human nature I've witnessed here already. Most of that has nothing to do with the platform or organizers, although I think self-voting should have been disallowed from day 1. I can't see any sort of utility for that under any circumstance.
As much as I despise the pure profit motive of centralized corporations, it's easier to understand and put aside. You know where their allegiance lies. A shadowy man(or group) behind the curtain is somewhat unsettling even if you feel like they are somewhat altruistic. But, I'm hopeful too and that's why I'm glad you're here to shine a little light.
I had a long discussion about self-voting a while back which you may be interested in reading. It's not really something which can be stopped because of Sybil attack concerns. People could fairly easily create other accounts and vote themselves up anyway (and they already do). It's a complicated topic, for sure. @sean-king did some posts on this a while back also and made a strong argument that a platform that doesn't allow it will be replaced by one that does because the investors drive all the value we see here and they want returns.