I think Steemit, Inc. can only speak about what they intend to do with their own software (Steemit). They cannot decide for example what @aggroed is planning with Steem Monsters or @heimindanger with DTube. So they cannot speak for STEEM as a whole, but only for their own area of accountability.
(That's how I understand it.)
Hey @jaki01! Good to see you around and a belated Happy 2019 ;)
I agree with you to a certain point since (according to the about page) Steemit, Inc is still planning to provide the updates on the blockchain, which means that they’ll define the direction the whole chain - hence all projects built on it - is going to take.
So i wonder who would be able to define a vision for Steem then - if not Steemit, Inc?
There is no defined vision for Steem and certainly not a Mission. There is only an aggregate set of visions and missions held by numerous projects, businesses, communities and individuals who can do their own development and make their own proposals for changes. This aggregate, ideally, should be greater than any singular vision or mission, which should be what decentralization is all about.
Hi Fredrik! Well I agree that different projects and businesses built on one blockchain can definetely have different strategies on how to work towards a certain goal / vision. But the vision itself can only be one for all of them - like e.g. becoming the best social blockchain in the world.
it is something that should come out of the SOS forums that pennisf organizes. That common vision shared by everything to work on it, something like Steem's constitution
We agree with you
Steemit.inc don't own Steem (at least they shouldn't). So they shouldn't decide for the community what the goal of Steem should be.
The vision of Steem is the vision of the community, there will never be a single defined vision. Everyone is in it for the their own reasons.
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I agree that it’s not on Steemit, Inc to define that vision.
But reason why / motivation and vision are two different things. We can have multiple motivations but follow only one shared vision. Otherwise we’d just go nowhere.
Perhaps that's why we have the need of a #steemcouncil. I no longer trust steemit.inc to guide the direction of Steem as a whole.
Any company that jumps over a pull request is seen as weak to me. They can't handle the responsibility.
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Same to you! :)