Thanks for making this video and offering your opinion. I was just discussing some of these issues today with @friendly-fenix and @bycoleman of @transparencybot. I posted last month about some answers to the price of Steem here— for newbies. Also the importance of commerce as @peaceandlove pointed out below. Although the posts are past payout, I'm very interested in your take on what I've written there. I'm deeply fascinated by this subject and how passionate people feel about it.
That aside— I agree what's been done here is magnificent. If it was done on purpose or by accident, intended or unintended; this is a worthwhile experiment in action. I'm also interested in seeing what the other platforms following suit will be doing including EOS, Sola, and others. I have a running list of 40+ blockchain social projects being developed and some are really interesting. I wonder how they might do things differently than Steem has. As someone else just stated below, it's a paradigm shift.
Something key here I believe is Steem, like it or not, is no longer solely a blogging platform. It's now transforming into a small internet of its own. Where Facebook is a single interface with its own database (which is somewhat what Steemit was at one point— and more centralized than let on); Steem blockchain is now becoming the network over which many various and different types of apps and interfaces are building their platform on top of— some with their own interface level database + blockchain. Most owning their own company and not Steemit Inc., and having not only different terms but different laws, rules, and technology. So I'm of the stance that the biggest changes that need to occur is in how we think about things— for the sake of your video Steem and Steemit are the same, but rapidly that is changing.
For instance, what if Dtube gets a license (like Youtube) to legally use copyright music but Joe Regular doesn't have said license on Steemit: will anti-plagiarism crusaders check to see if the music was posted by a dtuber before downvoting it to hell?
What if new platforms involve multiple coins, SMTs, and tokens in one?
Psychology suggests that losers feel as entitled as winners — because it's a quality of the competitive and comparative mindset. However benevolent seeming control, co-dependence, enabling, and help is: it's still over-reaching when unsolicited. Unions usually form against large capitalist monopolies to balance things out for the little guy (until the little guy becomes the big guy— then they act the same way.) I put a spotlight on the fact that many of the smaller actions taking place to fix Steem/Steemit are the same actions using to corrupt it- simply dressed better, and holding a cross of some kind.
How do we calculate for well intended ignorance?
Power does not corrupt. Power simply empowers, the incorrupt and already corrupt equally. Alas, the human condition is more the latter than the former.
Most of the flaws here are human flaws. There's no fork for that.
RE: Critical Analysis of Steem and Why I'm Invested