There's a quote from McLuhan, or it might be Neil Postman, about the content of the medium of social media being the connectivity itself. And so although many can leverage value from the endless phatic noise of "likes" and so on, really there is nothing there. Is there something different with Steemit? I hope so. I think it because to the money, but then that statement depends on what actually money is, what its value is. If that is merely because of a consensus, or coercion, then underneath the "money", SD, is a consensus, and perhaps because of this a different kind of community can develop here. Has William Gibson written anything about the blockchain yet? I want to use one of his words: liminal, my awareness of what is really going on here is liminal, not well articulated.
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@richardjuckes
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The difference with steemit is that you make money. really is that simple. You spend the same amount of time and you do the same exact thing (minus the whoring).