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RE: What Would You Like To Change In Steemit?
Sorry to butt-in in the middle of a completed discussion, but regarding Fins being sceptical of crypto and hight respect towards centralized authorities -- I gather that's just a natural result of your country's high living standards and social stability. It's no coincidence crypto was first championed by anarchists and the rush to exploit it in any way possible was stronger in countries with low living standards / high corruption.
Fins I seem to happen upon here on STEEM are perhaps more pluralistic and open to a more global connection... if that makes any sense? Hm.
Anyway, no single approach to onboarding works for every region, it seems.
You're not butting in at all. Your comment was most welcome.
Finland has been quite stable for a hundred years but we had a three-month civil war that ended in April 1918. A major factor that led to the civil war was the total absence of any kind of police or military after the Russian gendarmerie were all sacked in 1917. The summer of 1917 was very difficult as WW I was raging in Europe and the harvest was bad. There was high unemployment and social unrest in the autumn of 1917. There were strikes and the Red Guards were formed as picketers. The White Guards were formed in response. The senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire, declared independence from Russia and gained recognition from Lenin's Soviet Russia and subsequently other states.
The civil war was vicious like they always are. It took a couple of decades of consensus building to heal the wounds to a degree that made effective military defense keeping the Soviet Union from occupying and annexing the country possible. So, I think the way anything that has a whiff of anarchism is looked upon with great distaste may have something to do with the civil war four generations ago.
It's not completely hopeless because I've been able to argue effectively and get people to see the advantages of distributed ledger technology in debates on various forums lately. But we have basically the same FUD as everywhere and it's not easy.
Next summer when the dust has settled after the next hard fork, we have to begin to think seriously how to market Steem apps to people we know or meet. How to best do that will depend on local culture.