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RE: Promoting Steemit the Smart Way - Avoiding Censorship
Social Media sites are working hard to keep eyeballs on the site. That is why they do not like links on their posts. Two ideas here:
. What I do on Facebook is make a post with a catchy image and allude to look for a link in the comments. Here is a sample from earlier today
I have tested this out with URL shortener - Facebook for one looks through these to the redirect when they do a preview .
. I notice in Steemit when one presses on a link it opens up in the same window. Now a user may never come back to where they jumped off. Maybe Steemit should look to making the default behaviour for a link - new tab or new window. At least then Steemit is still open on the device.
That is interesting, but if they censor the domain name Steemit.com, then its all in vain.
It's really sad that we have to go our of our way to promote ourselves, because the conventional ways are blocked. I guess the entire DNS system is not good enough if websites can just be banned like this.
I think only a decentralized internet will solve this ultimately, with some kind of posting fee, so that spam would be limited, however no website would be censored.
Now that the DNS is in the UN's hands, expect much more websites to be censored like this.
A solution is already here. You can access Steem posts over Tor. The easiest way is to install the Firefox Tor Browser then goto http://usteempccoapgood.onion/. This bypasses DNS. Although I like the developer and discussed his work, it is always better to be very careful about giving a site like this a private key. A browser signing plugin may be available one day to help with this issue. Of course most users will not do this, but if we ever had a major problem with the DNS users could go this route.
You can use DNS to get a preview (this is cheating): https://usteempccoapgood.onion.to