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RE: Calibrae - Not the fork for me / an update on my position
All of the issues you raise are totally valid and I agree with the lot. I think it's important to remember that if you take all the voting rewards away, steem still has incredible utility as a network and as a token. In many ways, those properties and the way of thinking that gives you that perspective requires you to labor through all the challenges you mention before you can get to that.....despite it being there in plain sight. Once scalability is resolved along with onboarding, I hope a lot of attention is given to the issues you raise. I also hope people can look beyond the money and see the other incredible utility that steem has to give hope.
I think you're right. Unfortunately it takes an education and tenacity, which is an obstacle for the average person.
Facebook killed MySpace because it was so easy even grandma could do it and MySpace dealt with HTML, which only tenacious grandmas would do.
Not the same I know, but similar enough to learn from. And as long as it's presented to new people as a way to make money, that's what they'll expect. Maybe it would be wise to re-examine the initial exposure given when people evangelize for steemit?
I wholeheartedly agree that we should re-examine the marketing completely and emphasise the attributes like free to tx, global reach, possibility ofdecentralised architecture, no censorship etc
Lol, too bad we can't solve all the problems right here in the comments :)
There is a lack of communication, and there is no place where to provide feedback to make steemit greater. Also the way steemit works, where the Money rules on everything, on the quality of posts, on the witnesses, on reputation etc is very discouraging. I wrote a post about what I think how Steem should work: https://steemit.com/steemit/@emble/will-steem-succeed-or-commit-suicide