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What I Really Think of Steem - Truth Talk

Justine@justineh (72)2431d

So recently I was called "Anti-Steem" by a few individuals.. one who really needs to just grow up, and others who are just offended I won't wank them, like everyone else does.

Alas, here we are.

But because it seems that some were curious of my thoughts.. I figured I would share them in my traditional, ranty.. justine you are such a dick...way, so here goes nothing. ;)


I am a lot of things.. I am an asshole, I speak too much, I come across harsh sometimes, I am too opinionated and just all in all - An extremely flawed human being.

This is something I know, acknowledge, and try to work on. As I think growing as a person (becoming better than you were yesterday) is pretty important.. and it's a top priority of mine.

But I am Not Anti-Steem And my actions prove that over and over again. I just am not playing the game you want me too.. and that pisses you off.

Here is a tip, I don't care. I am not here to please you.. so GFY.. ;)

I could end it there, but after a conversation last night with amazing people here who I have known since I joined Steem, I felt the need to make a post to say what I actually thought..as apparently some have misinterpreted my "absence" for something else.


# What I think of Steem

Steem to me has always been a way for individuals to take back our biggest form of communication, the thing that holds many of us together - The Internet.

Yes, to me Steem is the basis of Web 3.0.. where individuals and communities have ownership, and the tools they need to build their own economies, social platforms, marketplaces, games, or anything else they can imagine.

Steem to me is removing the middle man

You can see that expressed in my Steem Vision shared last April.

  • It is the peer to peer revolution of the internet.
  • It is connecting creators to their audience.
  • It is connecting businesses to their customers
  • It is setting a stage for citizen journalists to share what is actually happening, rather than us depending on the narrative the news is shoving down our throats this week.

Steem is taking back the power of the digital world and giving it to the people, that is what it has always been to me.

Steem makes this possible due to the underlying technology that is quite unique to what is currently available. This to me was always the original goal, and you can see so by just reading the white paper or listening to those responsible for building the chain in the first place.

The tech is solving the problems that are standing in the way of Web 3.0 to exist.

It does not happen overnight.. and some things have to be rolled out to even make other things possible, it's a long damn battle.

That is what Steem is for me, and what it will become.. if we don't ruin it first.

Steem is Flawed

Steem is not a ready for the market product in it's current state. It is flawed. AND THAT ISN'T A BAD THING.. the tech takes time to develop and those building are constantly working through challenges that arise due to building something that doesn't exist yet.

There is no users guide.. it is all figure this shit out as we go.

Pinpointing these flaws and improving them is part of getting to the end result.. that is just how this works.

And anyone who is telling you to not point out flaws, saying nothing is wrong, or telling you it is perfect as is .. is blowing smoke up your ass. They probably are quite happy with their rewards, and don't want anyone rocking the boat.

If we can't admit we are flawed,and accept that.. we will never improve and therefore - reach our end goal.

But I also think we could be promoting it as is

No, it is not ready for market.. no it is not complete.. but I find it damn frustrating to see projects that are sooooooo far behind where we are being more "popular" due to them actually understanding marketing and putting it as a priority.

I don't think we need empty shills, or expensive bullshit.. I think we need to be showing people what the hell Steem is and what it can do. What they can build on it, how they can grow their business.. what it damn means longterm.

And I don't think "come here for rewards" should be any part of it.

But my god.. wouldn't it be great to have an intelligent person, who actually understands how it works, out there telling other people? Not just staying in our echo chamber to pat each other on the backs...

This is also a frustration that led me to "opt out" and wait for the future.

Steem is not about rewards

It is about building something bigger in my opinion.. and the focus on rewards is one of the biggest flaws there is in my book.

Way too much focus on doing what one needs to get rewards, wanking the right people to be in the "in" club, only doing things or interacting with people if there is an upvote involved, not questioning specific people due to their public standing.. what kind of a fucked up world are we trying to build here?

Being able to tokenize the web is pretty cool, but that actually means empowering communities to grow and build within themselves (and the tools to do so), giving businesses a way to reward their customers, replacing "points" with "tokens" etc.. but quite frankly I don't think that means a shared rewards pool drained from inflation that is pretty much killing the STEEM price.

We aren't ready to tokenize the web yet

Yeah, we aren't there. BUT WE ARE SO CLOSE! SMTs and Communities are key to this.. not one platform where we all watch the inflation that affects all of us be automatically rewards to shitposts by bots.. that is not, and should not be the end goal, in my humble opinion.

Steem is bigger than blogging to me, it is literally individual freedom of the internet.

Currently we are just playing in the sandbox while the cool shit gets built.. this isn't the end game.

But then why did you leave??

I didn't leave.. calm the fuck down Karen.

I stopped posting, that's it. I still run a damn curation guild, and have been talking with big projects about integrating to Steem. blinks

I stopped posting due to realizing that most of my frustration here was being caused by the damn rewards pool. So I decided to opt out.

I fell out of love with the shared rewards pool Since the day I got here I have been fighting for valuable content creators to be seen and be rewarded for the value they add.. for us to "showcase the best" in our storefront of a trending page to attract eyes in. This means I was fully aware of what content we had, and what we were rewarding.. and it was annoying.

Then the rewards got even more automated with the fork and it just seemed to get even more meh around here (for me). To me, while I know that "auto votes" are just necessary for many.. they sort of take the whole point of it out for me. No one is reading what they vote.. it's all just bots voting each other in my head. It's just something personally that resulted in a "meh" feeling.

I also realized that the rewards were making this place not very social.. people didn't feel free to post what they wanted, engagement is rough sometimes, it's not "fun" to just "hang out" for one reason or another.. I believe that is just due to everyone being in a big bucket, with no way to find what we like, the people we click with or what we want to see.

This is why I have always been a huge fan of communities .. as they solve this issue.

I simply decided to opt out of some aspects of this place and wait for the solutions that are on the horizon.. as they would fix it. I didn't like who I had become, or being so wrapped up in something I had absolutely no control over. I decided to simply stop fighting it, and wait for the needed improvements.

But then why are you shilling Bitcoin on twitter and not Steem?!?!?

ok.. just wow.. couple things - twitter is a random place to share random thoughts.. and nothing I say there should really count for much... it is just me saying shit and having fun, and I am a terrible shiller if that is the case.. but since we are here, I will try to explain my position-

I am one who believes that Bitcoin and STEEM are two very different things with two very different use cases.

Bitcoin - is a longterm store of value and a widely adopted digital currency

STEEM - is the utility coin that will power web 3.0 built on top of the Steem Blockchain

This is how I see them.. you don't have to agree with me, that is totally ok.. it won't hurt my feelings.


**What is with the change in narrative?** I have always spoken on twitter about crypto.. hell I barely even used the thing until recently. Bitcoin has always been part of that, and then sharing about Steem, and whatever else random thoughts crossed my mind.

I stopped sharing about Steem because-

  1. I was being trolled pretty hard here with some pretty vulgar things.. and quite frankly didn't want to send anyone here to see it.

2. I do not agree with how somethings are being done currently (see above), so because I am a person who is flawed.. and can only speak of what I believe in and not just what people want me to say - I just decided to stop talking about it.. and wait for the solutions to roll out.

I am in watch and wait mode.. I am doing my thing behind the scenes and waiting for the upgrades to roll out that I believe will be pretty important to making Steem what I have always thought it would be.. Web 3.0

Until then I share my random thoughts on twitter occasionally, and am in discord working.. my DM's are always open.

I hope that clears things up for anyone who cares, if you think the above is "anti-Steem" fair enough.. I am not one to try to push what I believe on others.. but maybe there is a possibility that you're just an asshole

¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Much Love and Happy New Year! *You filthy animals*

Comments · 44

  • @worldclassplayer(67)· 2384d

    Nicely said all round, enjoyed reading you.

  • @pwny(58)· 2389d

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  • @steemitboard(66)· 2396d

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  • @jaki01(77)· 2396d

    I like most of your thoughts in this post.

    I also still think a post should be upvoted because the reader (yes, some people really read) likes it and not because the author is on any whitelist, because he made a twitter comment on what he wrote on STEEM or because he upvoted or otherwise pleased any 'important' people.

    And true, automated voting even increased after the hardfork, also because of the new short curation window which doesn't allow to really read a post in case one wants to upvote fast enough. I don't auto vote, and as I also don't like to further reward all the fast non-reading auto voters with my late upvotes, I decided to upvote comments instead of the main articles (at least in case the article's potential reward is already higher than about five dollars). :)

  • @soundwavesphoton(68)· 2418d

    Steem is dead. Also who is karen?

  • @coininstant(69)· 2422d

    Why don't you make user guide? Glad you're shilling Bitcoin!! Bitcoin Rules!!

  • @epic-fail(70)· 2427d

    @justineh can you please make a post explaining why "burn" posts and Mr. Potato head posts are lining up the trending page? And why we need to have theses posts? And why it's ok for them to not only get massive votes on autogenerated posts w/ very little proof of brain but they also add several comments for them to all vote as well ? Why can't a burn be built into the rewards system instead of having these shitposts clutter the trending page? And why can they get away with it but if anyone else does these things they get flagged to zero ? Just because they say they are helping STEEM doesn't give them a right to abuse unless there is a double standard and we must "do as they say not as they do"! Do the ends justify the means?

  • @novacadian(65)· 2429d

    You have always seemed to me to be one giving a hell of a lot of themselves to this project. If you were a witness you would have my vote.

    Hope you are enjoying your hiatus and wishing you a happy and prosperous 2020, @justineh! ✌️

  • @crypto-34(47)· 2429d

    How long has steem been around for? a couple of years now and people still think this is going to be web 3.0 or whatever people call it these days. I think the idea around it is reasonable but I don't think this will last long term and will probably be replaced by somthing better, social media itself causes a lot of noise that mostly isn't useful. I think we are just going to have to wait and see what people create.

  • @magicmonk(80)· 2429d

    I love your writing! thank you for sharing your thoughts. they are very eye opening.

  • @ethereumalist(52)· 2430d

    As I am sure you can tell from my name, yeah, I definitely don't see Steem as a web 3.0, that's Ethereum, possibly Polkadot and Filecoin as well. But Steem is just 21 witnesses that can be voted in or out by a single company. That's not exactly a great foundation for a future decentralized web, not unless Steem changed the design of the witness system to completely rotate the 21 witnesses to a totally different set of 21 nodes. And if soft consensus is how blockchain is going to scale, then might as well do STARK chains off Ethereum I say.

    That said, I agree with you on the shared reward pool. It just does not work to have all these people interested in entirely different topics working for the same reward pool. But does SMTs solve this? Maybe, but why does it? Perhaps its the stake oriented voting system that sucks. SP for the sake of RCs makes sense, but SP for the sake of having higher influence in a blockchain sucks. That is the same model that video games do, which ruins the game. It might pay off devs, but any game that gives paying customers god-mode equipment in an item mall destroy the entire game for everyone not buying that stupid item. This concept is not the best way.

  • @jeff-kubitz(67)· 2430d

    Okay, so we will have a society without rewards for anybody who does anything special, you know like fights to save the universe or identifies the latest, greatest nemesis used to destroy the world and turn all into the infinite void of chaos because they are morons. Meanwhile everyone else at the top gets rewards and jets about superiorly over the heads of we phlebes(unrewarded slaves). Or others just kick back while others do all the work. Ho hum.

  • @phgnomo(65)· 2430d

    Ok, so this is the first of your posts I read around here. And... It's spot on.

    I have been in and out of steem for like a year. I use it for a while, then get a bit disgusted about a big part of the community, leave, then come back to see if things improved.

    Steem is a nice thing. The whole idea behind it is amazing, it's well implemented (most of it), and it kind of work.

    But the community is weird.

    Specially when you write something that goes against the whales opinions.

    I am not sure if @haejin vs @berniesanders had an influence, but most of the time, people are too much worried about the rewards than how to make the platform be more accepted.

    Anyway, you got a follower...

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  • @steemfreek(25)· 2430d

    Great post!

  • @stimp1024(76)· 2430d

    I need to get my eyes checked, I thought it was sh*t in a cup is what you thought of Steem.

  • @askmihai(57)· 2430d

    @justineh Congrats for the fact that you share an impartial perspective, it's good to be Detached from the system. My vision is too high for most people, so here's my Warning for you: you're about to read my personal opinion about the Next level of our game so:

    • Warning! The following content Conflicts with your beliefs!
    • Warning! Continue reading at own Risk!
    • What game?
    • Are you ready for a mind explosion?
    • Are you ready to break free from your mental prison?
    • How about we have a sneak peek in the rabbit hole?
    • How about we explore our Tough game called Reality, between us and evil?

    Buckle your seatbelt my friend, because the Matrix is going Bye-Bye. The Matrix is the Control system. That system is our enemy.

    • Why do we live in a Control system?
    • Did you know that everything is done through People?

    When I was a kid I felt something is Wrong with the world.

    • The Destruction on this planet got me thinking.
    • The fact that people behave in an UNnatural way got me thinking:
    • What's up with Destruction?
    • Aren't we supposed to be superior to animals?

    I felt there is a force that pulls the world downward and I said: I'm part of the force that pulls the world upward

    • Are there Other people who want to Better the world?

    I have this questions in my mind ever since. It’s nice how life offers answers to those who ask so I found the red pill. Fortunately the general idea is pretty simple:

    • Now we have problems because we don't work at the Cause.

    At a higher level of spirituality we have neither hosting nor censorship challenges because we communicate telepathically. Now we have problems because people are Attached to this current level that is NOT even necessary.

    • Why do we pay taxes?
    • Why do we pay bills?
    • Why there are internal combustion cars?

    Because Free energy technology is kept Hidden, because Free people can't be Controlled. In the next level there is NO financial system, because we're to busy with more important stuff such as evolving toward an even higher level. We live in a Control system:

    • Because we Sell necessities,
    • Because we do Not have enough necessities,
    • Because we use the resources of the planet for Poison and other stuff that are Not necessities,
    • Because People create Demand for Poison through their Everyday Choices
    • Because their Destructive, Frail, Fake nature chooses for them
    • Because they're Not aware.

    Most are not aware of the Basics. The good news is that the basics are so Simple that they can be summarized in 1 phrase:

    • the control system NO longer exists when there is NO demand for it.

    In the Next level of our game there are no unnecessary stuff. People do NOT talk about the Cause of our problem, because the Cause is our everyday choices, and as long as people are Not aware, they are Not willing to give up stuff that are Not necessities, so we Continue living in a Control system. People don't want to change.

    • Do you know what's the Madness law?
    • Being the Same and expecting Different results.

    After 12 years of education system we know Nothing. Why?

    • Why doesn't the government include education in the education system?

    You heard the word Tough. Now you might know what it means. The fact that children Waste 12 years of their life might be an example of a Tough scenario. Our government does NOT include education in the education system because UNeducated people are easier to… Control and when it comes to Dissolve the control system:

    • What do people do?

    They are so hopeLessly Dependent on the control system that they Fight to Protect it.

    • Are you reading these lines thoughtfully or are you remembering the red dress scene? Think again! Distractions are more or less destructive in the short term and inevitable destructive in the long term.

    People work hard to reinforce our Prison even though the door is open. How ridiculous is that! My guess is that there is NO fault. More important might be what are we doing Now (while we still can) about it. From the moment we're born:

    • We're conditioned to be frail, because Frail people choose what's Easy,
    • We're conditioned to be beneficial for Control: Knowledge is kept Hidden and we receive Lies beneficial for control (the Wrong map).

    People have positive intentions and this does Not matter.

    • As long as they have the Wrong map (The Control system), they invest their positive intentions in the Wrong direction (in Reinforcing the Control system). And by the fact that we choose what's Easy (Passivity) we Perpetuate this Nonsense.
    • Positive intentions make sense only when we have the Right map.

    People do what they know. They create demand for Destruction and Reinforce Our own enslavement because they don't know any better. The Plug for control is Lack of knowledge, Lack of awareness, so the good :) news is that the Solution might be simpler than it may seem:

    • Winning our game might be about getting the message (Knowledge, the Basics) across.

    By waking people up We can UNplug them.

    • Until we do, they are part of Reinforcing the control system because their Frail, fake nature chooses what's Easy: Destruction, Self-Destruction, Conformity, Passivity,
    • When people are Aware, they have the power to Choose their response and they can choose what's Right: Responsibility, they can Return to our initial goal of Evolution.

    We have the Power to Create educational content - through which we can wake people up and we can combine the 2 solutions:

    • We can share the Basics and
    • We can make a living by selling Necessities,

    By doing so we might have a chance to reach the Next level of our game where there is a superabundance of Necessities, at this point there is NO enslavement, and we can focus on Evolution. How simple is that? I'm not too smart. I bet you're smarter than me so I let you decide: What's better:

    • This level where we work hard to Reinforce Our Own enslavement or
    • The next level where there is NO enslavement?

    By the way. We don't have all the time in the world to meditate at this question. They want to depopulate the planet, because less people are easier to…You guessed right: the pattern is Control. Time's up, What's gonna be?

    • Are there people on this planet who can see Beyond the control system?

    We can Team up and Wake people up, Before it's too late. People told me:

    Your dream is too idealistic.

    • How can we reach the Next level of our game as long as people can NOT conceive this level in their mind?
    • What shall we do, shall we Conform with the Control system?
    • What is our human nature: Conformity or Evolution?

    For a long time I didn't know how to express my feeling in words. Recently I figured out I can express it in 1 word:

    • UNconsciousness:

    as long as people are NOT aware they function from a Fake nature that is made up of programs beneficial for Control, such as: Conform, Obey, Consume, Watch a screen, and what not. At our current level we have the Power to help people return to our human nature because we have the Power to wake people up and

    • What do people do with their power?

    They ignore their power. When it come to wake people up, people become Storytellers. They say:

    I can't be part of dissolving control because…

    And they create a Story through which they Justify their Passivity, meanwhile they Work Hard to build Our own enslavement. In the Next level of our game we have even greater power.

    • How can we be in the Next level of our game where we have greater power as long as we're NOT responsible for the power we have at our current level?

    Life on planet Earth can look different. Winning Our game is NOT automatic. Unless we wake people up in Good time, we Lose our game. I was unaware of these facts. Only recently I connected some dots. There are so Many levels Beyond this one and people are Not aware of this. People are Misled. This is Not right. I believe people deserve to have to have Clarity, the Full map. That's why I feel responsible to share the Right map. 1 of our problems is that people believe the control system is mandatory. They say:

    We can't do something about it. We're too small.

    This might happen because they don't know the context. Did you know that the control system is NOT mandatory? Evil exists as a challenge.

    • Isn't this the whole Point of our game: To experience Epic Evolution by Overcoming our Epic Challenge?

    There are many stuff to be said about Winning Our game. That's exactly why I created an educational show: to share my perspective about it. our game is NOT mine, our game is Ours, so:

    • What's Your opinion about it?

    Our game doesn't last forever: the latest Regulations for content creators are only the beginning, soon enough, we end up in a world of total Control, of Censorship (which is Already a reality to a major extent), in a point of NO return, in which we can NO longer work for winning our game, so the question is:

    • How can we wake people up in Good time?
  • @arcange(79)· 2431d

    Congratulations @justineh! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following categories:

    • Comments - Ranked 5 with 82 comments
    • Pending payout - Ranked 8 with $ 43,09
  • @lordbutterfly(80)· 2431d

    Just because you call something "truth talk" doesnt mean theres any truth to it. If you have something to say, tell it to me directly, not write posts like this to get pats on the back from the community as if that determines if youre right or wrong.

    Just because people like you that doesnt make your responses have any more or less validity.

  • @meesterboom(81)· 2431d

    Automation sucks ass, no two ways about it. It is the biggest thing that kills this platform as a content discovery thing.

  • @cryptosharon(70)· 2431d

    So many comments, hard to keep up. Anyway, I'm resteeming this.

    I was going to make a post about exactly this topic! and it's exactly what I've been telling people. I did make a tangentially related post where I talked about the fact that people promote Steem by telling people "come here to earn money", but they never say that it's just pennies and you can't live off of it.

    I have friends who've come thinking this was some get-rich-quick scheme for blogging and left in disappointment because it was so much work for a little chance of getting curated.

    I've taken to promoting Steem recently, but using the "honest" tactic. I was inspired by this post by @paulag where she talks about the fact that we've got a ton of content creators, because that's what it's being promoted for! And we don't have viewers or interaction. It's just post post post, no actual life in most places here. Yeah, featured and popular posts have tons of interaction, but even I, having 1500 followers, only get a comment on my posts every once in a while (mostly I just get bots and spam).

    So when I talk about Steem now, I say it's a cool social place where you can come hang out, make friends, be free and uncensored by "Big Media", like you said it is, Web 3.0, the logical no-middle-man evolution of social media. I wish people paid more attention to designing stuff toward that end, but the incentive is in the wrong direction.

    Lol, I have so much to say about this, because I've been thinking all that you said for so long, but I hadn't solidified it into a thing yet, but thanks to you I've got many more of my ideas in order about it. I hope I can make a few posts about this and outline some open source marketing plans for the sake and the future of Steem. I still have to think some things through; thanks again for bringing up this topic.

  • @cryptosharon(70)· 2431d

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  • @bluewave93(39)· 2431d

    Hi! I'm a newbie here. Just registered today. Found out about steem when I was reading about crypto. Total noob on that too!

    So many cryptos out there, but steem have a really nice concept that I just can't move on from.

    Its like a platform for authors/journalist/experts to publish their findings. That was my first thought when I read about steem.

    Still trying to understand how to dive into the community. Really like your pov on steem.

  • @limitless.mind(44)· 2431d

    Agree that it may not yet be ready for market but it should be more marketed. I recently came here from Medium, looking for a place to post. I much prefer the decentralized model. I bet other would as well, if they were more aware of Steem.

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2431d

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  • @adetorrent(78)· 2431d
    1. I was being trolled pretty hard here with some pretty vulgar things.. and quite frankly didn't want to send anyone here to see it.

    Makes sense. I wouldn't either.

  • @bil.prag(76)· 2431d

    wanted to write something smart, but i have nothing smart to say.

    o and people are offended way to easy this days...

  • @samuel-swinton(65)· 2431d

    I respect the "wait and see" mentally for Steem. I don't think blind optimism is useful in intelligent investing.

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  • @deepwaters(55)· 2431d

    It is setting a stage for citizen journalists to share what is actually happening, rather than us depending on the narrative the news is shoving down our throats this week.

    I think this is very important point. Cannot say that I saw this opportunity initially on Steem, although it is a big one. Specially as fake news continue to grow.

  • @stuffbyspencer(62)· 2431d

    calm the fuck down Karen

    lol, that actually got a audible chuckle out of me.

    I agree with your rationale here, I think Steem is a beautiful flawed beast. I think a lot of these issues can actually be semi-fixed by on-boarding more people ( the rewards pool becomes a whole different kind of beast when 100's of thousands & not just 10's of thousands are dipping their toes into it ).

    Here's a interesting question for ya: How do you feel about getting rid of the rewards pool entirely, and instead relaying on user-given tips ( similar to how the site cent.co does it )?

  • @plaid(63)· 2431d

    I share a lot of your sentiments... I've kind of 'opted out' for now too. I'm still around but just not posting much anymore. I think the whole push to get rewards has led to less real engagement (reading posts) as well as a lot of BS posting. People post daily not because they have anything worth saying or reading, but simply to get their rewards from their circle of upvoters... Time will tell, but hopefully this changes soon and steem can be more than just a 'game' that everyone is playing... :)

  • @edouard(68)· 2431d

    To be honest, it does feel like the tap should be turned off for a year or 2 but that's not gonna happen.

  • @cyberblock(65)· 2431d

    Who is this justineh? She's such a beauty! :)

  • @darrenfj(62)· 2431d

    You gotta do what you gotta do, and opting out is sometimes the braver way to keep your integrity and not getting caught in the drama.

    Brave, and I applaud you for it!

  • @steemitqa(64)· 2431d

    It is about building something bigger in my opinion.. and the focus on rewards is one of the biggest flaws there is in my book.

    BINGO!

    Way too much focus on doing what one needs to get rewards, wanking the right people to be in the "in" club, only doing things or interacting with people if there is an upvote involved, not questioning specific people due to their public standing.. what kind of a fucked up world are we trying to build here?

    You know... I'm going to get some heat for what I'm about to say here ,but what the hell this is Truth talk after all right!? I'm thinking we are kind of new territory when we involved other people from other countries (not isolating any one country) who alignment doesn't match what normal rational business practices ( this is just a cultural thing). You see many cultures don't know or care about long-term innovation/business as much as they do about getting rewarded for their actions and bettering their situation . So you get dev's from other countries who have misaligned goals and not really thinking past what they can get out of the system vs. what is best for the platform. I mean , I'll be fair there as many western country apps on this platform (I think) doing the same ,but it does lean heavy toward European/non-western countries who don't really care about what the potential is. We might be expecting to much general consensus from people who don't know any better, or don't care really what this blockchain do. I could be writing out my thoughts wrong so I might have to revise a million times but whatever. Good post though!

  • @stackin(78)· 2431d

    I love it how you "trigger" peoples emotions. 😅😂

  • @chrisaiki(67)· 2431d

    wouldn't it be great to have an intelligent person, who actually understands how it works, out there telling other people?

    I thought it was you ! I am going to Yup this post.

  • @belemo(79)· 2431d

    I see the post you made about Dtube and 3speak earlier really fucked with people; great job 😂

    I don't get why people get mad though; its different strokes for different folks. I read your post and understood your message but fuck it, I'll still shill the fuck out of steem, surreptitiously of course. With some light circle jerking on Twatter and normal engagement, you can promote steem without seeming like an annoying bot.

  • @chekohler(76)· 2431d

    We all paying the cost of being early and all these awkward teething process aren’t very different from a centralized business and creating something with the help of others!

    I still find it more exciting than most of the internet and I go pretty deep in these things since I do make my living online

    I think that this was proof of concept and we shouldn’t be tied to it, it’s going to change and evolve in many ways and we will follow the way we like most

    I’m also watching and waiting I don’t really worry about the rewards I’m happy to contribute my thoughts and banter every day

  • @ammonite(73)· 2431d

    We said. I am also very excited about the possibilities of Steem and can't wait till the things to make it realise it's potential are running. The Tribes gave me great encouragement and hopefully the SMTs and Communities will help it move into the fast lane. Steem is the medium but for now unfortunately it is still the subject.

  • @ssjsasha(74)· 2431d

    pretty much

  • @skramatters(67)· 2431d

    Also this post needs images!! Whippin up confections ain't got no time for reading sections.. A picture paints a 1000 words can I get a goat in your next reflections?

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  • @skramatters(67)· 2431d

    FFS Karen! But fr fr !! church! I echo many if not all your sentiments.. For me the automated steem just is not worth me putting any time into.. It's funny though bc when I first started I'd never get rewarded for posts that I put quite a bit of spirit into, but now that I do get decent rewards I can't be bothered to put any effort into my steem. I got my dirty dozen or so folks that I like to engage with, but otherwise, just as in the beginning I'm not motivated by rewards. I was considering taking some free time here to actually write something potentially meaningful or worthy of some attention but I saw your post first and im satisfied knowing that you are asking to see the manager or womanagers..

    I am also not going anywhere but I can't be getting sucked into steem.. It's a cool concept. The level of devotion I see in others here I can't really relate to but whatever floats boats n strokes the different folks..

    2020 woot

  • @galenkp(84)· 2431d

    Hey Justine, I'm not steem-savvy so rather than embarrass myself trying to pretend that I am I'll just say that I'm flawed also, like every single other human on the planet. It's human nature to be...Some just make the mistake to think otherwise of themselves...And forget that people are.

    I'm optimiistic about steem...If I wasn't I wouldn't be here still. It's people like you that make me want to stay.

    Sorry, not a very tech-savvy response...But I'm flawed and broken, so the best I got right now..🙂

  • @niallon11(77)· 2431d

    Have to agree with pretty much all of this post. We're not ready for mainstream yet until we have a simple on boarding, better interfaces and an ease of use that anybody can start and not get lost. I also love STEEM and see the huge potential that it has and to be fair it is improving every year.

    People seem to think that everything should be perfect straight away but for any new site or app it takes time and multiple versions to get it right. This is the building phase and it will take time to get it there. The only question is whether people will stick around long enough to see something special getting built. If they weren't so quick to attack others and to leave themselves it would be in a much healthier place as we try to move the chain forward.

    Looking forward to an interesting 2020.