RE: Steemit continues to be as unprofessional as ever
This is the price to pay for steem being fully decentralised. When you get steem you are not an investor or customer, you are a part of it.
Sure services where I am the customer will offer better service, but I dont want to be the customer so that others can make profit. I rather have a bit of outage once in a while and a truly free uncontrolled medium.
Steemit is not responsible, they are not running the chain. I can do everything they can do. Sure they could bring better updates on whats happening but so can I.
Running the chain is a witness job and when steem went down I went over to PAL's discord where most of the witnesses I vote for are and I quickly found out what was wrong and that they are busy trying to find a fix. I was in fact very pleased with their effort. If you dont have such witnesses maybe think about changing your votes.
Decentralisation comes on a scale. Steem is on the one extreme and facebook on the other. In-between there may be many valid business ideas. But for me the key aspect is freedom, no censorship, open protocols and immutability. On all of these steem delivers and it is almost impossible to censor any content here.
Worst case all witnesses get corrupted. But then because everything the do is public we will notice and can vote others. If that is not enough, I can simply fork the chain because steem is a permissionless system.
All of the real viable alternatives for me need to have a similar level of decentralisation. I am hoping for competition as that will make steem better, but so far I have not seen any real competition (projects that run ontop of other chains may be promising, but you are not gonna fork the native chain over disagreement in a dapp. Still there may be some ideas possible ).
Providing updates and notifications about 10 hour outages is just basic business common sense in my view, and something other blockchain-based platforms do as well. There are million dollar accounts here, and having been through several of these outages, I feel that the point I am raising here is valid.
I am with you, regarding the advantage of complete decentralization. Steemit, Inc, however, is a business, and I expect better performance and communication. Especially after two years.
Yes I also do not think that steemit is doing their job perfectly. They focus very much on development and not much else. Their idea is to leave everything else to the community and just bring code that they hope the witnesses will adopt. I think they should do much more marketing. But that is their choice.
For the million dollar accounts here, they can vote their witnesses and complain with them. Or they can pay someone to implement a service they want. Steemit doesnt owe them shit. They are as much a major player here as steemit and they have all the opportunities to make this place better. I think this is part of the problem here. The big holders dont understand what they got into. The think they buy a service from steemit, but they are not. They pay to be part of the system and they should not wait on others to do what they want. They are steem and they should work to improve the system themselves. Otherwise they risk loosing their stake and it will be their fault for not understanding what they bought.
Ah. You just joined this year. Makes more sense now...
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Very true.
I don’t think I said Steemit “owes” them anything. That seems like a weird thing to say, to me. A simple update that the site will be down does not seem like a lot to ask man. Common business sense.
what I mean is that one can ask any big account to provide updates. They are invested in steem, it is common business logic that they want it to do well. Steemit is in no way more invested as any other big holder.
The special people are the witnesses. When something happens we hold them accountable and withdraw our votes in case
Steemit, Inc. is a business. When even a new site like SCORUM is down, they let folks know. Common business sense.
Totally agree, and that is what life is all about, like a Dapp, AKA Dlife.