RE: Hello Steemers! My name is Fede, I'm an author (WIRED, New Scientist, BBC), Singularity University/NASA graduate, activist, researcher and public speaker, excited to be on Steemit!

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Note that the data is all on the blockchain, which is public and open source, so anyone can create a new UI that promotes content on different algorithms. You can also post arbitrary data to the chain, so you can implement different voting semantics if you want. Of course, that won't generate payouts, but there's probably some hybrid approaches that would utilize the existing payout voting structure and add some useful other data. Sky's the limit. :)