Hmm...I'm not convinced that this is a social media platform....but if someone wanted to build one on #steem I bet it would be pretty cool if they did it right.
Most of the problem is that no one seems to know what we are dealing with here. This is the future of #steem
I don't know the specifics about our future, but #steem's next push is not going to look like the last push, signing up our friends one by one.
Step one, steemit needs to decide if it is a publisher or a platform.
A publisher has the tools to edit and censor unpopular and or inappropriate content.
A publisher has legal liability for unpopular and or inappropriate content.
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A platform allows anyone to post anything and provides no tools to edit or censor other people's work.
A platform has NO legal liability for unpopular and or inappropriate content.
Each poster is held solely responsible for their own posts.
For example,
Steem is the platform. It holds all content.
Steemit, just like the tribes and other frontends, actually do "censor" inappropriate content. But, Steemit is bad at what it does since STINC is pretty hands off with it.
Some people have definitely uploaded really bad stuff here in the past.
Thanks again for your insightful and informative replies!
To add on to what enforcer said, I believe more in the platform than any one publisher. Steemit made clear they would censor with thedarkoverlord episode. But the blockchain holds it all, I believe its all visible on partiko.
Steem is infrastructure. Everything else is addon interface, and very pliable.