A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting shut down by the people who own the sites we all depend on. There’s a protest going on at Facebook over the issue right now. One Turkish journalist is saying that his account has been blocked inside the country, at his government’s request; Palestinian journalists have a similar problem. YouTubers believe that their videos have been getting unfairly de-monetized by mindless robots.
On a more macro level, publishers that had worked hard to build a Facebook driven traffic strategy saw their traffic plummet when the social media giant decided it preferred user generated content. These decisions cut more deeply because so many organizations depend entirely on the big social sites for relevance. Some of them don’t even have standalone websites.
NowThis was feted at its founding in 2012 for building a news organization that assumed all of its content would be distributed on sprawling social networks, but it hasn’t caught on as a cultural force. Social network driven growth was seductive way to reduce friction marshaling powerful network effects to build audience, which made it easier for content to go viral. That said, it seems like publishers forgot to consider the potential downside of depending on someone else’s IP to distribute content?
Blockstack browser, open on a desktop, still in private alpha. Courtesy of Blockstack
A Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator backed startup called Blockstack, just barely out of stealth mode, has been designing an alternative browser for what could be fairly described as another internet, one powered by the bitcoin blockchain.
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In order to prevent identity theft, identity deception of all types, and content theft we like to encourage users that have an online identity, post for a website or blog, are creators of art and celebrities of all notoriety to verify themselves. Verified users tend to receive a better reception from the community.
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I've already done this on Twitter.
If you're going to ask people to do this, then keep track of it when they do.
And not that I would actually do a verification on the news site I write for, I have already written two stories about Steem on there and the story linked above also references Steemit and links back to the most recent of the prior two.
Please don't ask this again.
@bradydale Awesome story on the changes coming to Web 3.0?? Anyhow, don't worry about @steemcleaners , it is a newer project created by STEEMIT users in order to help prevent id theft for blogging as well as plagiarism and more.
One thing I did want to maybe have you understand a little better, is that you stated that STEEMIT stores all the site data in one place, And I believe that to be Incorrect. I believe that the STEEMIT Blockchain, which is all the data, is stored or maintained by 19 different STEEMIT users the the community votes on or elects to be part of those 19. They call them "Witnesses."
Anyhow, I don't think the community realizes yet who you are. I will do my best to help.
full $teem ahead!
@streetstyle
Hmm... I hear what you're saying, and in a way you're right... it is in lots of places, but all the instances of the steem blockchain are the same, and that's what everyone mining has a copy of. So I think it's right. Thanks for checking me, tho.
That take is based on my interview with one of the founders and my broader reporting on this sector, so I'm pretty confident about it.
But you're right that it's copied so many places that it's kinda weird to say it's one place... one entity or object, I guess
Thank you very much for your response and verification.
We are keeping a log on it, but it looks like we have missed you.
We are sorry and wish you all the best!