Did STEEM suddenly move away from being a consumption-based economy?
This is a huge change of direction and from my perspective the totally wrong one. Simply for the fact, that SMT is nothing new and tokens and apps can already be developed on blockchainOS like EOS and TRON, who are specialized for that purpose. Why should any developer wait for Steem to catch up? Why use a former social media blockchain over EOS/TRON (or even Ether)?
I know nothing about Lino yet, but many of the reasons dLive writes about are totally valid for me and in the end this is just a business decision by an app developer. The real problem I see is that Steem is very clearly developing into a non-consumer direction and that makes me sad...Unfortunately the answer to this question is yes. They decided to go from a consumer based content network into the direction of SMT as a blockchain for dApps. As @exyle and others have stated many times over the past weeks, it will become harder (or even impossible?) to earn Steem via blogging and proof-of-brain content creation in the future.
The way I see it, Steemit started transitioning away from being consumer based when voting bots and bid bots were introduced without some way of getting rid of them. Allow those bots to continue on and you essentially kill "Proof of Brain" and transit into "Proof of Bot Use".
Let's face it, if it were truly consumer based, then wouldn't it make more sense to have everything listed chronologically? Someone posts something new and it's at the top of the page BOOM done. Always fresh new content regardless of where the person is financially on steemit.
Would certainly as hell make it easier to find fresh, new content.
Well, bots are just the expression of the true value people see in this blockchain. It's money first, then reputation and good content last.
I don't blame the bots - they are just a symptom. This blockchain has to find ways to get rid of bad players like Bernie Sanders.
Since the focus of Steemit Inc is elsewhere, this won't happen.
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Perhaps, it's just disheartening to see a shitpost with no value receiving ... well actual value. And you and I already are on teh same page in that kind of regard.
I think you have understood wrongly. Earning from blogging must necessary become harder as more people come in whilest the inflation rate degreases, which means that the reward pool is divided to larger number of people whilest it is also getting smaller. I would however personally believe that there is going to be spike in the demand, thanks to smts eventually and that is a good spot to earn, maybe for the last time by blogging.
I totally understand that point, but I still have the feeling, that blogging is not the main focus of Steemit Inc. at the moment. Otherwise they would find ways to incentive good content and do something against bad players who are not providing good content and earning Steem through hate speech and mobbing. Anyway, time will tell...
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Well you are right that it is not their focus right now, because smt's are. Why try to make perfect them selfs when they can provide the block-chain so that others more skilled with such matters can then come and attempt on it. After smt's I do believe that there is most certainly going to be some real good blogging apps, you just have to get in early to grab most of those tokens.