Steem is a great idea and a great product.
There is just a "little" problem:
Steem isn't decentralized, but all the Steem supply is in the hands of just a few accounts.
One of Steem creators, Daniel Larimer, is developing EOS, a great project.
With this project, he isn't repeating the same mistake made with Steemit: EOS is being distributed with an ICO that lasts one year.
Steemit was heavily premined, and this is shown by the fact account "Steem" holds most of Steem Power, and the 2 founders are in the top 10 whales list.
This imbalance was created on purpose when Steem was created, and with Dan Larimer leaving ten months ago, there seem to be no signal of change in Steem governance.
I can understand the reasons that lead to this choice: without a solid community at the foundation, delegated proof of stake could be exploitable.
Steemit was created totally centralized because at the time it was too difficult to do in a different way.
But this "original sin" is leading to a series of problems, that can be summarized in one statement: everything is being made to favour speculators.
Instead of making an active monetary policy (spreading wealth among Steemit users) and fighting vote sellings, all the choices made by Steemit management are focused on increasing Steem value.
This may look a nice thing, but actually increases the gap between "normal users" and whales.
Steemit cannot be reformed, because most of Steem Power is in the hands of persons that have different targets. (Actually different also from what written in Steem Whitepaper.)
It's the time to start imagining a new project:
a social network based on DPoS technology that is really decentralized, that borns from an ICO just like EOS, and that uses the EOS blockchain to work.
This project should be fully decentralized, governance should work like a DAO. This would allow the users to take monetary policy decisions and every other important strategic decision.
The tokens of this new social network should be distributed in various ways:
a) airdrop for all the Steem accounts that earned rewards (excluding, if possible, votes that have been bought from known vote-sellers)
b) some "proof of humanity" mining or airdrop for those who don't have money to invest
c) an ICO like the one made by EOS
I created a telegram channel to start talking about this project
It seems to be a very big project
Bella Simo, bentornato ;)
Hello, I really like Steemit, he's the first one to dare to develop an idea that competes with Facebook ... What you write is also true ... the moment of the jump is approaching
A very BIG project, but we may be headed that way.
Done a fair amount of reading from many different people's posts about some of the problems you are mentioning, including about how the steam power is concentrated with just a handful of people. So I'm definitely interested in learning more. I'm still new around here but I'm trying to catch up and learn what I can. Being what I have come to understand is called a minnow at this point, I'm finding that it is indeed hard for the "normal users" to get a leg up and that there are a number of users who obviously seriously know how to exploit the system. I haven't been turned off from steemit, but I realize that if I want to make it here I definitely have to educate myself, and I am definitely interested in checking out the conversation on your telegram channel about a new project! Thank you!
An interesting comment, but it is more profitable to start a new day every day;)
That would be quite an undertaking! I do agree with you whole hardheartedly!