Great points @neavvy, thanks for sharing them.
If the success of Facebook and other centralized social media is anything to go by, it proves that the masses don't really care about decentralization of it.
And likewise about money, most people don't really care about ideology.
What they do care about is stability, ease of use and free speech.
And Libra will have both stability and ease of use, but Facebook does not really have free speech, and that is where Steem comes in.
So what needs to happen is to make Steem more easy to use, as for stability, it's pretty stable where it is, and if there comes mass adoption it will go up quite stable.
Those are my thoughts, have an awesome Sunday.
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Thank you for your comment @flaxz, I appreciate it a lot.
I think that's the point. Recently I have been intensively thinking how Steem could become simpler and more user-friendly, but I have no idea. Perhaps it would be only possible if some serious hard fork was done, changing the whole architecture of Steem.
Yeah I do not think another hard fork will do for this, and we do need to think pragmatically anyways if we want to see some actual results.
The ease of use though is an area where I will try to focus a lot on in an upcoming project I have laying around, but I need to get another project going smoothly first called @thisisawesome, and I think that by the end of this week I will have all details pegged down.
The last 2 weeks have been pretty hard work on that, with a lot of changes and a lot of additions to make it effective, now I just need to get everything to the point where I do not have to spend 2 to 3 hours per day running it.
The upcoming one for easy Steem onboarding and a knowledge base for how to use it is called @awesomesteem, and it also has it's own Engrave domain name yourawesomesteemadventure.dblog.org, and that will soon get most of my focus, it will also include community contributions through a tokenbb powered forum once I have set that up, and you are welcme to contribute when all the details are worked out.
Stay Awesome!
Thank you for your reply @flaxz
This project is really amazing, I seriously appreciate manual curation on this platform.
Wow, this looks really interestingly. Easy Steem anboarding and spreading knowledge about how this platform works is in my opinion the most important effort if we want to pump the price of Steem.
I would be glad to do it. How will the contributing work?
Thanks @neavvy, my idea right now is that the community can post about different aspects of the Steem blockchain in the Tokenbb forum, get rewarded on those posts since they posted them, and be included in the index for the knowledgebase.
Those index posts will be set up as different categories on the Engrave website and each category is also it's own menu item, that way everything will take place on the Steem blockchain.
I also plan to do several small ebooks that can be easily rebranded on their affiliate links, like Partiko invites and such.
There are a lot of details yet to work out, and I have so far just set up the website and made an introduction post.
That sounds really interesting. I will be glad to contribute :)
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