First one is a ridicule behind the attitude of milking the 🐮.
This isn't social media.
What is it if it's not a social media site?
You seem to know me so well. It is amazing.
Wait, did you take that as an assessment of your character? If it's valid then feel free to address that.
it is many things for many people. you might see it as a social media site, I do not, that is just one facet of it.
lol. you do understand what Steem is don't you? separating the financial aspects of the platform fundamentally change the entire use case of the platform.
Which view of social media are you talking about? the user who's content is monetized or the shareholders? The advertisers who run their algorithms or the game creators like Farmville? Tell me, which part is the social media part and which isn't?
Ah, the entire social media you speak of is a business model that monetizes human interactions and plays upon our social needs. It has nothing to do with actual socializing because that is possible without any platform and always has been for the last 2 million years we have been human. So, the social media Utopia you seem to want from other sites is facilitated by an authority who monetizes each aspect.
The difference on Steem is rather than the central authority we as a community populate all areas of the ecosystem and, no one is confined to only being in one area. What you are trying to do is constrain and limit the very system you are also trying to use t o improve people's life experience with.
So, if you want it to be like the other platforms, that is fine but, never complain about people maximizing their financial values or milking cows because, that is the other platforms.
I thought you wanted something different, which is what I am aiming for but, take away the ability for each person to build and have control over their information and the value of it and, we can all go back to Facebook.
That is called cherry picking mate.
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