Synereo sounds like a social media platform designed around the idea of "safe spaces". You build a private house of your own confirmation bias and only accept those you approve of into your safe space. We wouldn't want to open ourselves up to just anyone right? They might say something hurtful, maybe even give us a reality check:
As for "getting doxed", that happens to basically anyone that puts quality content out on the internet. No amount of safe spacing will result in you being able to protect yourself online from the things you do on the internet. If you are embarrassed by your actions, then don't do them. The internet is a glass house, you can block yourself off into a safe space of "privacy" but the rest of us can still see you.
As for the low value of monetary rewards for certain blogs on "steemit", some of my quality posts have gotten 0 traction, but this site only has something like 16,000 active users currently. So the whales are up-voting the types of bs that draws in mainstream facebook users, so we can build the network. Once there is a few million users on steemit, the blogs that are quality content will receive a lot more monetary value because the entire system will be worth significantly more. So are the whales up-voting stuff that you like? No, guess what that means: what you like isn't bringing in new users, they are up-voting content to bring in more people. Stop whining about money you are getting for free just by posting on a site that someone else built for you. If you just keep working hard and helping to build this steemit platform, soon all the quality content producers will be making bank like Mr. T:
well said!
How do we measure that the posts being upvoted by the gatekeepers are optimally driving the masses here?
I thought the entire point was to eliminate gatekeepers.
This is easy, you can judge them by the results they are achieving. If more and more people are being drawn to the platform, then they are doing a good job of curating the content and inspiring people to create good content. If the growth stops or goes into decline they are doing a poor job. Simple.
That does not tell me it is "optimal".
Well I think the only way to eliminate the gatekeepers is to grow the network and further distribute the steem power across a wider network, where eventually there is so many dolphins that the whales become almost irrelevant.