Redefining how you find information on the internet
The internet has always been a decentralized store of information ever since its inception. Harken back to the early days before Web 2.0 and we'd see an online world full of .html article pages where anyone could register a domain and start typing away their ideas, observations, records, information, literally anything. An "information highway", as they called it in the 90's.
It soon became clear as to what the Internet had done to information. The ability to find curated information provided by the whole of humanity right in front of us seconds after we search for it is an ability unknown to Homo Sapiens until the very recent past. Think of any topic and there is likely a heated discussion this very moment if not whole libraries of information at your disposal.
The spirit of Information
Over the years, there have been many platforms where people from across all cultures and borders could come to together to ask and answer questions, a Question & Answer (Q&A) Platform. Among the most famous so far had been none other than Quora, a Q&A platform that at this moment, is valued at an excess of $1.8 Billion USD. A company that hosts content that answers surgically specific questions that people tend to ask on the internet.
From a tech-business perspective, serving this niche is extremely lucrative. Get search engines to index your content, and more than likely, people will type in questions that are hosted on your platform almost down to a tee. There is no better way to drive page visits and grow a website than the ability to serve the curiosity of anyone regardless what questions they ask on the internet. Page visits equal potential monetization revenue.
This is great and all, But Q&A websites fail to address one very important issue. What's in it for the content creators? Why do users bother to answer questions without any seemingly direct benefit to them? Some may argue altruism and social capital, but people will only do so much in the name of those things. It is human to pursue incentives for what they do. Quora "solves" this by mimicking other major social media players, making their platforms addictive by design. Using subtle but powerful design techniques to keep their users coming back asking and answering questions, with little to no obvious returns to them.
This is how incumbent content platforms whether social or otherwise, have been designing their websites when it comes to user-generated content. It's very clear that it is very unfair to users who use the platform. Where they themselves become the product for the websites. More users = More pageviews = more revenue. "Free platforms for users" is no longer a valid excuse when users are not the real customers, where truthfully such models makes the users the workers for the websites who disproportionately benefit from their activity.
Tokenization of Web Content
The advent of the Steem Blockchain signaled the change in how people would interact on the web, specifically, by removing the restrictions on how content creators make a living while pursuing their passions. Traditionally, relying on ads is the only source of income for the majority of content creators. By endorsing or advertising certain brands and products alongside their content, creators often face restrictions on what they can or cannot do.
As for Q&A platforms, it is all too often for answerers to put endorsements together in the answers they give to questions. Asking "What is the best xxx for yyy" and you will see this phenomenon in its full glory. It's unavoidable, why else would people answer questions and build their identity on such platforms full time? There are rarities, sure. But the exception proves the rule.
Tokenizing web content removes such restrictions and bring about the possibility of a fully transparent and unbiased Q&A Platform. The incentives now shifts to being able to provide the best answer to a question, rather than endorsing products in hopes for commission.
A gap to fill
The Dapp Ecosystem made possible by the Steem Blockchain is the perfect platform to create such a Q&A website where users answer questions to answer questions. Where good answers gets rewarded rather than answers that advertise. Of course, users are free to endorse their favorite products or answer questions as brand ambassadors, more power to them. But now, thanks to the Steem Blockchain's system that rewards content creators directly from content consumers, creators are incentivized, period.
Musing.io is one such website. Built on top of the Steem Blockchain, users need only a Steem account to start asking and answering questions. And we're proud to inform that we already have a running website and a working product on Musing.io. As of this today there are over 21,000 questions and answers posted from the website, and the growth opportunity is just massive.
The new Internet
We strongly believe that the Internet will be Tokenized - that Content creators will be rewarded directly by their consumers without the need of a middleman and that the users will own their data. We also believe that this makes it possible for the digital environment of the future to transcend the 1% Rule of the Internet, because everyone has something to offer.
Amazing platform musing.... It's been awesome all the way
Yes it's kind of addicting. I did like quora but musing is even better when you can monetize your knowledge.
Musing is a great platform. We have other questions and answers platforms but they don't reward the creators. Musing is changing this scenario. This platform, powered by steem blockchain is a new revolution in this area. I hope it will be a great success.
Truly a remarkable idea by extraordinary minds. Been using it for a couple of days now and I must say, it's top notch. Well done @musing.
Hey,
Do you guys censor users’ posts from Musing’s front-end?
I’ve found that none of my recent questions or answers are showing on Musing.
Wondering whether this is a technical glitch or censorship.
Would appreciate an honest, upfront answer - or clarification on what the tech glitch might be if it’s something temporary affecting multiple users.
Thanks
Musing is such a great platform !
Musing is awesome :)
I just knew about musing and joined it. I love it so much. The first question "if u have an opportunity to travel to a country, what country it will be and why? From the question about I want to know what country people love to travek for a reason.
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With the current delegation, be expect to have more abuse than actual growth. Questions being asked over the past five days has been hell to me. All of a sudden everybody care so much on Musing growth.
It is certainly expected. Which is why curation in the most literal sense is so important. Upvote good posts, ignore bad posts.
Musing is so interesting, it might be an ocean of Q&A very soon.
I haven't seen more befitting and highly rewarding Question and Answers platform other than musing
Glad to see the changes in the profile, listing the discord and musing site url. Hopefully, this spreads faster now.
Hope musing overtakes quora and also goes on to become number one
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i like the idea of musing, i signed up already, but emm it seems like a Q&A forum, i mean there is many choices when it comes to Q&A, but why reward someone who ask a question or answer it, its ok if you think that some answers are valuable to some point, there are people who are already answering questions because they like to help and they are happy with that, i think if your intention is to help someone you just help him and don't expect a reward, true thankful words would be enough, the are amazing platforms for Q&A, for example in stack overflow for IT and coding or Stack Exchange for many other domains, the people there are awesome and they are happy to help, don't get me wrong here i'm just explaining my point, but i do admit that Musing is different and its beneficial for the Steem blockchain , i expect more features , good job
Fully agree to this statement. Using Musing.io has been far more rewarding than Quora so far. I believe it won't take long for other Quora users to hop onboard the Musing train :)
Will try this dApp out.
I strongly believe Musing has great potential and I’ve already been answering some questions and can’t wait to do more Musing in the coming weeks...
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STOPonly problem is that I can't figure out how to put up a question ... and the fact that the site is hell a slow today. Not quite sure why that is. I think that steem is one of the best blockchains to be a part of. I intend to stay for the long haul.
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Hey, @musing.
I already have this question placed in the general area of your discord server, but I thought I might ask it here, even though it has nothing to do with your post in hopes someone is monitoring the account comments on Steemit.
I see that when we leave an answer on musing, it shows up as a comment on Steemit. However, the answer/comment text, other than a link to see what was written on musing, does not show up. It seems like, then, that the text of the message is being stored somewhere else?
I'm part of an engagement league that counts the number of comments, character length, etc., in a weekly contest. The comments are definitely registering on the blockchain, but the comment text does not seem to be doing that.
Any information you can provide about this would be very helpful and appreciated.
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