Congrats on getting it out there. I made my obligatory HF20 post the first day after the fork and have been off to timely crypto stuff since. It's nice to go on record where you stand, heh?
I totally agree with you that things are too complicated for most people on here. I've tried so hard to bring people over, but it winds up being so much work for me once I introduce someone to it, because they don't expect it to be so complicated. They don't expect to have to approach it as a new job with a 2 week full-time training period!
That's how I had to approach it, honestly. And I think that's why I've done well on here. But not everyone is interested in being that hard core. Some people just want an uncensored, ad-free, privacy protected social media platform to operate on, and consider it a bonus that you also get paid for your content. Or maybe they want the pay for content mostly and appreciate the rest. None of them are looking for a computer science degree so they can post.
I react the same way when I hear people writing about selling RCs and a market developing for it. These are the same people complaining about bots. Let me be clear, before I take on the new hobby of trading in the RC market, I'll just delegate all my stake to a bot and be done with it.
If this thing is going to have staying power, the future development needs to think more about users and less about companies that may want SMTs. They can start all the SMTs they want, but if the flagship project goes under, won't that take the tokens built on the chain down with it?
Maybe not. Maybe all the company cares about is at least one SMT being enough of a winner to save the chain by giving it enough value. Then they can stop maintaining steemit completely and get on with just spending their money.
yeah great points. i would hate to see them start caring more about companies and less about people and communities.
but i think this hardfork was a must to get ready for the community initiatives that are planned.
here’s hoping lol
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Dude, I just had a convo about this with several folks, including one witness, and it has become clear that STINC's intention is 100% the SMTs and to discontinue Steemit as soon as they don't need it for experimentation anymore. We will never get out of beta. They are making this available to us while it's in development so that we can help them with development, and paying us some STEEM along the way. I'm pretty sure at this point that that's the entire relationship. They do not value our experience on here. They value the data we create that they can use for further development.
Urgggh. That sadly. Wouldn’t surprise me. And i’m all for the blockchain and the smt powered applications. but i would hate to see such a powerful blogging platform disappear :(
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I was writing my follow up comment (below) while you were replying to me.
Yeah, a bit of a shame, but they've got a bigger game plan, so we'll see.
lol ya just saw that.
It would be. but i think (and hope) an smt could power and even better blogging platform. but like you said. we will see lol
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... which, okay.
I can live with that now that I'm clear about it. I'm no longer perplexed or disappointed in their decisions, because now it all makes sense.
I won't be bringing my Native American youths on here though. I'll wait until one of the SMTs gets to a point of stability and fairness that I think justifies my asking that vulnerable community to invest themselves in it. In the meantime, I've got enough SP to be okay myself, and just have to accept that all growth will come from people with money to invest in STEEM.
That's probably enough to get them to SMTs without the price of the coin collapsing. We'll see.