OP's reasons for creating an alternative blockchain are very weak.
-He only received $131 for his post --> I receive on average $0.4.
-Russian owns only a tiny portion of the network --> so does Italy, Spain,Greece,Brasil and every other country except USA.
-Not clear on why it is not attractive to developpers.
-The Russians earn in their national currency --> an option to show equivalent in your currency is a few lines of code.
This to me sound like a very bad idea why? Because if we start solving the language and distribution problem like this we will end up with as many blockchain as we have countries and the big idea that was steemit will end up like a tiny niche project.
The direction steemit is going is not the right one. Many people here hope that steemit will become the next facebook but if the founders solve the language barrier like this it's never going to happen.
Imagine if zuckerberg would have shared its source code earlier with everyone that could provide a different language version of facebook? Well the result is that there would be a lot less chances that zukerberg's facebook would be THE one we have today.
The more concerning thing is that they don't realize that golos are direct competitors, what happens when golos the Russian site becomes golos the International site?
The fact that steemit inc endorse this kinda project tells me they have a very narrow vision for what steemit should be. I see steemit as THE protocol for social media but looking at all the votes it seems that many don't really think this way.
Social media is all about network effect,it's like currency, the more people uses it,the more valuable it becomes for everyone else and that's why there are only a few giant in the space. The first post I wrote was actually a post that explains how to create the best network effect which is to have a lot of diversity on the same site ( marketplace, video,etc..).Imo even projects that uses steemit blockchain but on different site are bad because they reduce the network effect. It's all about attracting every type of users, golos is like saying bye bye to the Russians.
For steemit to support all languages they just have to create translation bounties, there are very few words to translate on the site and then create a box where user can tick to only view their prefered languages. They say it's not attractive to developers, why not code that feature instead of building a whole new site with a whole new blockchain?
posts translation completely misses the point.
Maybe what it should have said was:
We'd like something like this, but our government won't let us have it.