What I for some time have been thinking about this libertarian blockchain ideology is, that it changes nothing. This article inadvertently confirms my beliefs. Steemit or any other community, digital or traditional is just a community. Just like an ethnic, religious, political or national sphere, like Europe, China, Christendom, France, Latin America. Why not a City ot a school, a group of friends, a sports club, a political party. All of these are communities.
Nothing is different, each and every community has the same problems with democracy, leadership, passivity. So does Steemit or Dapps.
The real problem I have with this is that I see a repetition of what every technology so far has done. Produce big promises and great expectations, then fail. The invention of steam power as well as the locomotive were supposed to bring peace and end of strife. The machine gun and later the atomic bomb were to make wars impossible. The internet was supposed to give the people a voice. But the internet gave us the most extreme surveillance society ever seen. Think of the revelations by Snowden and Assange alone. AI is used to predict politics and make deadly effective propaganda. All just from knowing your favourite colour, shoe size and a hundred thousand other personal trival facts about you and millions of your peers. Big Data technologies are already horribly effective.
What I see is that blockchain and dapps change nothing. Just a new community with the same dynamics and psychology as any other community. A need for leadership. Like a state and its government. What is worse is that the damage of any bad forces are yet again just magnified. Think sci-fi nightmare.