That sounds okay conceptually, but go use the platform. It fucking sucks, everyone is a an attention whore. It's all about mass appeal, it's like reddit circlejerking on crack.
I've seen it and I agree, it was created years ago and during that time it was mostly liberals, crypto anarchists and "influencers" chasing fake internet points who signed up. Kind of how Gab got many "nazis" signing up 4-5 years ago and was accused for being a nazi platform.
The user base is defined by the needs of the time, censorship back then wasn't as bad as it is today, and not always targeting patriots and conservatives. If steemit, or a platform based on the same tech where released today it would have at least 90% based patriots. There's no reason to not go decentralized.
I was there when it started, I thought it was a good idea. I very quickly ditched it altogether because of these issues.
There's no reason to not go decentralized.
I agree, but a hyper-incentivization of the upvoting system is a disaster. I don't think you need to incentivize people beyond their want to communicate.
True, it's not sustainable in the long term to pay users to post, that's a constantly increasing inflation which will require an exponential growth of new users to make their coin have any value at all whatsoever.
Once it hits the bottom, investors will abandon the platform realizing it was a waste of money, operators won't have any profit and the users will only have breadcrumbs. Users who where there only for the money will quickly leave.
Gab are the real cleaver ones, starting early with a small user base and improve their platform every day, then wait for the mass bans issued by twatter and the others which means a quick influx of new users, all for free, and all just looking for a place where free speech is allowed. It's brilliant.
That sounds okay conceptually, but go use the platform. It fucking sucks, everyone is a an attention whore. It's all about mass appeal, it's like reddit circlejerking on crack.
I've seen it and I agree, it was created years ago and during that time it was mostly liberals, crypto anarchists and "influencers" chasing fake internet points who signed up. Kind of how Gab got many "nazis" signing up 4-5 years ago and was accused for being a nazi platform.
The user base is defined by the needs of the time, censorship back then wasn't as bad as it is today, and not always targeting patriots and conservatives. If steemit, or a platform based on the same tech where released today it would have at least 90% based patriots. There's no reason to not go decentralized.
I was there when it started, I thought it was a good idea. I very quickly ditched it altogether because of these issues.
I agree, but a hyper-incentivization of the upvoting system is a disaster. I don't think you need to incentivize people beyond their want to communicate.
True, it's not sustainable in the long term to pay users to post, that's a constantly increasing inflation which will require an exponential growth of new users to make their coin have any value at all whatsoever.
Once it hits the bottom, investors will abandon the platform realizing it was a waste of money, operators won't have any profit and the users will only have breadcrumbs. Users who where there only for the money will quickly leave.
Gab are the real cleaver ones, starting early with a small user base and improve their platform every day, then wait for the mass bans issued by twatter and the others which means a quick influx of new users, all for free, and all just looking for a place where free speech is allowed. It's brilliant.