Why do you think that STEEM is underperforming?
As we all know, crypto market's have had a tough run over the last year or so. While the recovery seems to be underway STEEM continues to slide down the coin rankings. I am interested in why people think this is happening?
- STEEM is a hidden gem, it will turn around soon.
- STEEM is underrated, the market will see that one day.
- There are better alternatives to STEEM, we are clinging to a pipedream.
- STEEM is rubbish.
- Some other reason.
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Well, Steem is advertised as a Censorship Resistant Platform but many of the top Whales will destroy new users accounts if they post anything slightly against the Mainstream Narrative.
Most users are leaving as soon as they arrive. And that won't change any time soon.
Meanwhile, users like me, who have been here for over a year, start to see that the Top Witnesses don't care about protecting the Network against Trolls and Bullies... so we start thinking about leaving.
In the end of the day, the list of users dropping out is higher than the list of users signing in. This, unfortunately, starts to look like a race to zero.
I guess I have not really experienced these issues, but I tend to try and keep myself out of trouble. Thanks for your perspective on this.
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Yeah, if you don't post about controversial stuff, you have nothing to worry about... but, if like @maxsieg, you post about topics that are not accepted by the Mainstream Media, you're pretty much f@cked around here.
That's why I don't think the future of Steem is as bright as many seem to think. After all, with this attitude from most whales and witnesses, we'll never be a platform for serious bloggers but only for personal blogs with topics like photo, art, music and such.
Anything that can spur a discussion... and I'm afraid you'll be better off in Facebook.
And let's face it, which serious investor or venture capitalist will invest in a Social Media site where only material of little value or importance can be freely shared...?
You seem to be mistaking Steem with Steemit. Steem is the blockchain, nothing is hidden there. But sure, you can gray out a post on Steemit if you like. It’s still there though.
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I am not mistaking anything. The Top Witnesses can choose to allow new users to be harassed, insulted, bullied and threatened for their opinions... or they can prevent that from happening.
Since the Top Witnesses are letting it all slide, including some death threats, then the problem is with the Steem Blockchain itself. Changing the frontend is absolutely meaningless.
Changing front end is actually very reasonable. You can’t flag in Partiko and posts hidden via flags on Steemit are very much visible. Your issue seems to be with Steemit rather than Steem.
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How does that help changing the climate of terror that most Steemians live under? Most people in here live in a constant fear of "saying anything wrong" because they might get their accounts destroyed in 5 minutes. You know that as well as I do.
And I'll tell you more. I went through my Witnesses List recently, I've checked who were supporting the Trolls and the Bullies, either directly or indirectly, and removed my votes from them.
I can see @trinkcowski's point, and have observed and taken a look at some of the accounts mentioned. I think that the dApps are shifting the focus of STEEM as a blockchain. Those that came and have been around for a while and focused on Steemit and blogging mainly can experience the issues refered to above. I do think that the prospects for the chain are quite different from the prospects for Steemit as a front end, and the traditional "free speach blogging platform" that many came here for.
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Developments in main Steem system seem to be slow, and competitors are strong and resourceful (rich). DApps have not enough revenues and users.
Alot of the dApps rely on funding from delegations and only a couple have been able to get external funds. Steemhunt and steemmonsters/splinterlands seem to be ahead of the rest at the moment. Hopefully more will catch up.
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I agree that STEEM is somewhat of a hidden gem, but I don't know if the turnaround will be soon or later. I also believe STEEM is underrated, but without an active, concentrated effort with marketing, beyond what some folks are doing on their own through Twitter and other social media, I'm not sure how the market is supposed to find out.
Crypto is the new sparkly thing, and so you have to be able to sell it, your team and yourself. I haven't seen enough of that happening. Someone else is left to run the narrative, and those folks don't have a vested interest in STEEM, so they go after the next shiny project. It was EOS, now it's TRON, next it will be something else.
STEEM just needs to get in the game. Leading out with its best apps might be the way to do it. We've got a lot of beta dApps though, and not much in the way of cutting edge.
Good points, marketing is something that has been a weakness here from my observations. Maybe that will change when the Blocktrades DAO starts up, and the Steemalliance becomes active and funded.
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I hope this happens and I am equally surprised with the down turn but I could read some great replies here.
Personally, I think we need to put up a system to support new Users. I visit #introduceyourself and could see that only about 0.0001% care about these news guys and about 97% of them give up on Steem after putting up a few posts and do not get any interaction from the community. Feels like they are outcasts!
This is a statement I always repeat
We cannot talk about mass adoption of Steem if we don't make it easy for people to adopt Steem
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These are the problems that people are facing on steemit:
https://dpoll.xyz/detail/@niel96/what-things-should-be-improved-to-make-steem-great-again/
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Maybe one day 🤔
Hopefully one day soon. 🤞
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