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In my EOSian exploration I found a blogging platform that is trying to directly compete with the STEEM blockchain and it offers some interesting features. Maybe you've seen a post or two about it, it has a very particular name, Trybe.
I have to the say the purposeful misspelling of a word that symbolises community is quite clever, as it allows for the word to be registered without losing its cognitive meaning. However, I would like to say that I find nothing wrong with the current way it operates, but of course, it's very, very early in the game for them and it shows.
Post Submitted for Approvals?
Now, if I'm understanding this correctly, when you write a post, make it all spiffy with the words and the sentences and the pretty pictures and what not. Then, you would click on the submit your post for approval and go look at some paint dry for a while.
Of course, I currently don't understand what determines a post worthy of being published, or if it's done by humans, some skynet level AI or something even more nefarious. I'm simply speculating that a system that requires approvals, is probably not very scalable.
Ok, let's be ridiculous, just for a little bit. We have 1.5 million transactions on this blockchain per day more or less, right? Well, let's leave the bread and the cheese out of this one and talk about posting exclusively, not comments, actual posts. Let's say that out of those 50 thousand active daily users all of them post on average 1 post per day. I know this is not the case, I know that there are extremes all over the place, but I'm simplifying the sandwich here, remember? - Well, our little social experiment is still insignificant when compared to the big giants and I can't even begin to imagine the amount of manpower it would take to sort through 50 thousand posts per day.
Wife - "How was work honey?"
Husband - "one word... pancakes"
Shoutout to !pancakes
You see what I mean? It would probably cause some sort of side effect of the likes that a psychologist would write books about for generations and I wish I was exaggerating, but I sincerely think I'm not. But, again, I might be completely off and not understand how the approval system works actually.
If it's an AI
Then it's a matter of time before someone find "the workaround" and spams the network. Of that, I'm very sure. Why? Because we are humans, and we human everything. You know what I'm talking about right? - "I wonder if it breaks.... BOOM..... OOPS!" - Yes, that, precisely that.
What happened to censorship resistant?
That is what I want to know, because I thought that was the cheese flavoring to the cheese itself. This reminds me quite a bit of those questionable macaroni and cheese boxes that proudly say - NOW WITH REAL CHEESE FLAVOR - They always make me think "What was in this shit before???" - Anyways.... I digress.
The point I'm trying to make is that our little internet 2.0 is supposed to be edified on top of unstoppableness. Look what you made me do, murder the english language because I needed a new word. If we have cryptocurrency projects that allow censorship, then are they really cryptocurrencies? I'm seriously asking, because it seems to me they need to be labeled differently.
No doubt the competitor to Steem will come
But I have my doubts it will be something like this. Now, it could be successful, it could very well be a great blogging platform for a specific niches. But, it won't really be a social media experience. At least it seems that it does not have the necessary underpinnings.
However... What do I know?...Maybe just one thing one thing...
That's not yogurt
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• All those broken cell phones..
You certainly touch a weak spot there, but i guess if structured right the approval system works fine. First of all there will be no AI operating, to my knowledge it's the founder and a few others, who do the releases. This is said to be opened to token holders at a certain stage. In the end they try to be a quality platform, so they need to prevent sh**tposts and group circle voting. If article guidelines are clear and transparent I don't see that big of an issue, everipedia will also work with user voting etc...
It could work, It could do great... but i just dont see it as a direct competitor, I guess my point was not too clear, my bad...
I did not know that about everipedia, but it does make a lot more sense for that project tho.
Oops sorry I was more focused on the pancackes than trybe. Probably that's the correct priority though. I do have a trybe account and am just picking up free tokens , just in case. I have my reservations about it though, just like you. But minds... that could be interesting!
I made an account on minds, but me no understand either... maybe you can explain it to me
whaa no. i also made an account on minds. Iwas gonna let you explain it to me hahaha....
http://trybe.one/ref/5779/
Let's moon together...
It looks like there's a referral system, and I'm guessing just going to your account probably doesn't work as a referral link. I'd be happy to sign up through yours if you can point me at it.
ohh... let me get that for yous... so we can make some monies Poly and buy a burger with all the toppings except for the bun.
http://trybe.one/ref/5779/
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!pancakesanywhere on the blockchain and we will send you a menu.Aw it doesn't give pancakes if I vote on someone else's !pancake initiatiation.
You can't pickup my tab... :(
Unfortunately not for technical reasons.
Hi meno. Good to know other sites like trybe are lagging in so many ways. I am all in on Steem so honestly will have the head in the sand for some time here I think.
im a steemian at heart, but don't wanna echo chamber myself, you know?
The potential to abuse Steemits uncensorabilty is huge. What if i hate my ex wife and post all her personal info on blockchain? No one can do anything? Its eventually going to come up and IMO could bite us on the ass. I found a post on here outing the court sealed secret identity of a child murderer and it can't be erased. Censorship resistant is cool but what if i post copyrighted file? TBH I don't know how steemit deals with those issues but what if a judge orders a post deleted? What about whistleblower posts, this site is registered in the USA what happens if the next Snowden posts stuff here? How free speech are we really? What if someone came here and posted bomb making instructions? Do wehave a line in the sand for this stuff? I understand the front end can be deleted if it was illegal porn, but information is still on the blockchain, I think one day it will cause a problem.
I'm going to check this site you mention though, steemit isnt perfect, and i think someone else could do it better.....
Very valid concerns. .but it's a new world so the laws will need to adjust as well. .technically the courts can go after witnesses as well. .force STINC to out the witnesses
I have the suspicion that if something is horrid, there is a way to hide it on the front end side of things, making the website steemit survive such events. It would still be on the blockchain, just not on the website, I suspect that is how its currently operating.
Interesting, I've registered an account and will check it out later/tomorrow. Thanks for the info :-)
Cg
it could be interesting... it could be!
:)
you are more than welcome, btw thank you for the support, i wanted you to know, i noticed.
No worries, my pleasure, keep up the great work! :-)
Cg
Surely there will. br competitors but sometimes it sounds like some inhuman being will suddenly create a better steem with a snap of his finger. Its just not how it works.
Hopefully SMT we will create "our own competition l" to sites such as steemit. But steem will still be the big brother:)
I'm with you there brother 100% - here, have some ninja points...
I am not sure I like it aaargh
Have you checked out scorum? So Much Better!
Noo... not yet, i will do, thank you for reminding me... :)
Hello,
I am making a list of people who actively read, react to or upvote comments on their articles.
This list will be everyone that I follow (my following list).
You are actively engaged in your comment section and upvote the usefull feedback, so I have added you to this list.
I hope this will bring you and the others like you good fortune! keep it up!
If you know someone who you think should be added to this list please let me know in the comment section under the article in the link below, so far I have found around 30 authors that are worth commenting on after reading.
https://steemit.com/list/@flyingdutchman/help-me-make-a-list-of-people-worth-reading-and-upvoting-your-opinion-is-worth-something-earn-more-steem-by-only-reading
why thank you... well to me, the fun happens in the comment section, it always has!!
cheers mate..
dunno if you stopped by @tarazkp already, but he has a super active comment section, might be the kind of the block
Thanks for the tip, I'll check him out right away!
Well, In fairness I think I've posted three things on there over the past week and all of them have been approved despite the fact that none of them are related to cryptocurrencies.
However, I do find many issues with the site.
The main issue, of course, is that it's really slow. It just takes forever to navigate anywhere.
It's not user-friendly at all either.
Looking for posts, looking for a particular User, it's all pretty convoluted at this point.
Plus, it just doesn't look very good.
All in all, I'd say it has a long way to go before it becomes a competitor to Steemit. If it does become a competitor to Steemit though, I think that will be a good thing and not a bad thing.
No doubt @jeezzle competition is good... I don't fear it at all, don't get me wrong.
But you know, maybe they are very, very but I do mean very early in the game, so I'm not being entirely fair.
jajaja amigo @meno, me encanta la forma tan sencilla con la que escribes, relatas las cosas que "quizás" para nosotros pudiesen tornarse difíciles.
Yo no había conocido ninguna otra blockchain, por lo tanto no tengo punto de comparación, mi perspectiva es borrosa, porque solo conozco a Steemit y amo a steemit.
Soy un Blogger a tiempo completo y eso ha cambiado mi vida.
Le deseo suerte a las demás plataformas que salen al mercado, quizás contribuya positivamente con nuestra querido ecosistema, a veces "la competencia" puede hacer la diferencia.Saludos desde Venezuela, amigo.
Great content, keep it up
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Posts didnt need approvel befor not sure why they changed it maybe to stop spamming or have higher quality post.
that does make sense... that's why im thinking they might become a publishing platform, not so much a social media one. I think... verdict is not out of course.
from what i have heard they are making a website platform, and if you update your website it automatically post on trybe too. this is probably a long way off tho.
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