I've noticed, most discussed topics are finance and steem related. That's a little sad. If this wants to be a social network platform then some things are off.
First, once the user signs up for the only purpose of making money, personal creativity is discouraged, unless it coincides with what's trendy and at some future point politically correct.
Second, I've seen people try all over the place. It's good and everything, but when you try too much it shows. Gets ugly. Loses charm.
Third, you don't need a picture if you don't need a picture.
Seems to me like it's all going down the profit-drain, I'm comparing it to the things we have today that are only measured by the amount of profit they generate. Like drugs, wars, and crappy music.
More of this thinking please steemit. I wont be here long if I only feel people put content up to gain from my likes etc. Its why i hate being asked to "sub" and "like" youtube vids. Ill fucking well sub or like if I want mofo!!! lol
^ THIS!!!! It feels somehow close, like maybe the possibilities of it being a radically cool thing are there....but maybe it's just a thin veneer of 'newness' covering an even worse system of incentives. I'm kinda hoping there are future interfaces that lend themselves to solid communities as opposed to senseless attention grabbing. It's seriously cool that it does function as a blockchain though, and that people can and will build all sorts of interfaces for it, using it in creative and unforeseen ways =)
Actually one thing that sort of bothers me is the fact that the system demands 'fresh' content all the time. Like instead of investing and editing, and enhancing a single page to make it more valuable, complete, and useful over time...it seems like the incentive is there to push out NEW things. I'm wondering if my already torn and battered attention span is going to appreciate my new cerebral interest in Steem.
I have much of the same kinds of worries. Already youtube is a mess of attention seeking, which is fine in one way, seeking attention for the sake of it, I guess thats a choice... but when money comes into it, the quality of content sinks dramatically. Im already seeing many posts like this on steemit, Im hoping that wanes over time but we shall see.
I'll upvote that =) I'm very curious to see how the whole thing develops @seccentral! It's crazy, there's both some really deeply cool things about it(a decentralized censor proof discussion network, super cool!!!), and there's also some glaring kind of hard to ignore things...(like is everyone behaving different because they just want to make money???!)
who knows...what may come of it all.
Great post. I think the nature of the platform, the newness of it, the crypto aspect, combined with how it's all set up right now certainly encourages this sort of behavior. There needs to be more reasons someone would want to use Steemit, even if the crypto aspect wasn't there.
It's not asking too much to bring content creators here :)) From youtube and such. We need big names that actually do interesting stuff instead of debating the same thing from a different angle.
For example, even if this would fill with the finest trolling, i'd like to see pewdiepie on steem.
Also some tech vlogs like linustechtips. I've seen some independent media/journalists but right now it's as if it's too early in the morning.
Can you guys higher on the ladder get together and send some emails inviting such people over while briefly describing the platform ? I'm talking about witnesses and devs.
I really liked this, i to have seen that if your articles aren't what in or about steem then it get next to no views and even less money. I hope in the future steem will rise and become a proper all rounder for content.
i think this site is an accurate mirror of real life and history. the arts and entertainment world are only viable when people dont have to worry about hunting and gathering, (kinda hard to sculpt and paint when your kids are starving) realistically the dark ages where brought about by a minor cooling of the planet which inhibited plant growth, no crops no food, no feed no meat, every day was spent either starving or trying to not starve by gathering and hunting(making money these days) the dark ages were dark because of the loss of intellect , (cant read by candelight if you have to tallow to make candles with) patrons of the arts are only patronizing when there bellies are full.
thats the problem with capitalism