Censorship
I do understand the blockchain Steem, records date and is (after 7 days) not possible to be changed anymore. Therefore facilitating the idea of non-censorship. HOWEVER, @suzi3d you tell us in the interview, Facebook manipulates the timeline and manipulates the number of views. Then you say "Steemit solved ALL of that"... Well, I do not agree Steemit solved this! As you know, the visibility of a post at Steemit is very limited! Some posts will make it to one of the standard channels (HOT, TRENDING), but most posts are within 30 minutes ending up in this huge pile of posts nobodies sees anymore. Therefore, although Steemit does not manipulate your own timeline, the way content/posts are presented in the Steemit User Interface results in most posts to end up in the 'bin'. I would have liked you to not sing hallelujah yet, since Steemit is not there yet to be a good social media.
Also, I'm wondering how many of the 1.000+ views and the 536 votes actual watched the video. That is another flaw at Steemit! Many users are here to get rewards, and there is this trend of users voting for posts with a lot of votes and a lot of views, however not reading/consuming the content itself.
In principle I agree with you, Steem blockchain does not allow deletion of content, so it has potential, for sure. But at the moment it is just potential.
I agree, I see it that way too.
But also, I think the "not reading/consuming the content itself" is a people problem...on any platform. Nothing can ever be ALL good, unfortunately. But is it a better alternative, maybe? Then it's a good thing, imo. Potential is a good thing to have, and sometimes criticism can help more than it might hurt.
Change is hard, sometimes necessary, and I think we've reached that point. I'm just happy to see so many people talking about it.
You have good points, and it is good to have the potential to grow into more censorship free services. I simply hope some team able to design good user interfaces, will design a good user interface to the Steem blockchain.
Also, I hope those who can decide on the Steem blockchain functionalities, will build in functions to be able to block copyrighted material, and block accounts abusing the blockchain and/or other users; The flag feature is not good enough imho.
Yeah, you're right. I hate the ones who ruin good things for everybody else. "You're the reason we can't have nice things!"
Actually, that was the last bit of my reply that I chose to omit (wish I hadn't now)...I'm glad we're all talking about it, AND, even more, I'm thankful for the designers actually working on building these interfaces. They're the ones to thank and the ones to look to, for us to put some faith in their wisdom and talent. We need to and we have to, because they're the ones we're depending on. Good point!
Lets see what the future will bring :)