Steemit Inc.
I love steemit.com for a great many reasons. Every single one of those reasons is a person. They are not multiple reasons, masquerading as different names on different platforms.
They are people; individuals with flaws and failings and fears; people who endlessly amaze me with insight and understandings and perspectives which impart a gamut of wisdom. We are all much alike!
Steemit Inc. does not seem to listen. Steemit Inc. certainly has a difficulty in responding … I have presented my thoughts, my criticisms and my solutions. The responses (as rare as rocking-horse shit) are lame and smack of arrogance and ignorance.
Steemit Inc. does at present “own” steemit.com – a reality contrary to the mantra of the blockchain which is synonymous with decentralisation, distribution of ownership and influence and freedom of self.
The blatant profiteering of whales from the content delivered by minnows sits upon torture chairs as the vilification of Facebook and Google is delivered.
Facebook and Google are angelic by contrast to the whales.
The delivered experience thus far is at odds with the rhetoric. So, we the people have to take over the policy formation for adoption by our masters.
Where are we going?
The Roadmap is as useful as an ashtray on a Harley.
Managing our way into a future of French Ideology:
liberté, égalité, fraternité
At present, there is a scarcity on all three fronts. There is no vision of the future.
So, I shall start it. It is not a Statement of Manifesto – it is an invitation to join in the discussion. Some of the Vision is in Heading Form. Some of it is in a more detailed form.
Let’s complete this thing as a community driven project, as intended.
In my drafting of this, you will notice a great deal of collaboration. There are a number of reasons for this.
- I have heard enough from the techies about how they hold the answers.
- The blockchain is our servant, not our master.
- Reinvention of wheels is a matter of stupidity – unless there is need.
- The inclusion of the world at large seems to be held up by handbrakes, foot brakes and bricks beneath axles and chassis. Let’s get this show on the road.
- Right now, I think it would be a struggle to debate that steemit.com is a force for good. It is not.
- It looks like there are many people who are preserving their SP and their relative position as they wait for something to happen. Sitting on your SP will have zero positive impact upon the world. Two possibilities: you either have no capability of making something new happen (fine – we all have different roles) or you are impeding progress (this needs no qualification which cannot be meted out to you by your mother and a wet fish).
Suggestion of the approach to take:
You are on a World Council of Applying Change for Good to the World. Your remit is to agree to yourself the issues which you care about the most.
These issues could be global, regional, national, local, community or home-based.
Write these down in a way that anyone will understand the issue and the aspect of it which is causing you distress and how that is manifested.
Now write a solution – ignoring blockchain technology and steemit.com
Now explain how blockchain technology and/or steemit.com can bring about your solution in a way that is better. If the technology cannot enhance your solution, do it anyway. If it can, start doing it on steemit.com. If steemit.com is not the right medium, we need a new application for the blockchain!
Simple.
A Structure of Planning and Prioritisation
1. Principles
Mission Statement:
Example: “steemit.com aims to be the biggest Social Media platform by 2023.”
Vision:
Example: “Our values and policy structures will ensure the consistent quest to provide people with the very best tools and functionality in personal and community based communication.”
Structure:
Subscriber owned and driven. No individual or group of individuals to ever have a greater influence than 3% by October 2020.
Steem and Steem Power:
Steem: to become the agreed principal system of exchange, executed over the blockchain across all Steemit Inc. and Steemit Inc related assets.
Steemcommerce:
All Steemit Inc assets are to remain upon an open source basis for developers. A guiding council is to be established to steer and ensure that user-centricity and viability outside the blockchain are the primary filters.
2. Services
Steemit.
An interface which allows subscribers to load posts without formatting.
Delegated voting in exchange for service.
Message console (pre-steemit.com user-interface, incorporating the related websites) to include Direct Messaging, VOIP, Crypto-exchanges, discord, etc. funded via a steem fee payment.
Six week care programme. Access to a help desk (human). I already provide this in our Facebook Group for nothing more than wanting to see people succeed. It takes six weeks to make a habit.
A pre-posting plagiarism check, with authenticator.
Non-steemit.
8 channels of copyright free music from mixcloud.
Regular News Channel – Real, based upon the sorts of people who are reporters not puppets.
Media Exchange – everything from Getty Images to Universal Pictures. I wrote a piece about Newzulu, you may have seen.
SteemBank – the world does not and cannot, in its current structure, work without debt. Furthermore, the consensus amongst economists is that every economy needs a ready supply of liquid, discretionary and immediate cash. Not a swipe card but notes and coins. How are blockchain currencies going to fulfil these needs or are they needing a securitisation structure?
SteemCommerce – gaming to shopping, travel to security systems. Open source functionality of commercial systems and monetary services are to be developed. There will also need to be an Ombudsman or Chamber of Commerce as every system will be a new system. Where R&D are required, how is the investor rewarded?
Currency interface – FIAT and other blockchain currencies
Stock Market. Streamlined clearing system – SIS is the European based leader in the field and it is a huge lumbering beast. PWC are the biggest overseers of the Stock Market in London and have a replica which I have seen. This is simply redundancy capability.
A Steem Music publishing company which rewards artists through ‘smart contracts’.
Distance learning platform – SteemSchool. Fully certified by a leading Educational Institute(s) but content driven by an educator, rather than someone who teaches students how to pass exams. @lasseehlers would become a legal home-schooling parent! There is a lot of mileage in this Service Sector.
KidsSteem, aside from the school, a safer better platform for the kids – they can start earning as they are (L)earning. The minimum subscriber age is now 13. What is the rationale?
Blockcloud – I have no idea whether this is even feasible but it sounds like it might render cloud technology more secure.
Once these ideas are given shape, they can be assessed for value to the different types and sectors of the community and assessed for development time and costs. External partnerships will make this clearer.
These are then all managed as the development sector, within the global development path of steemit.com. The Development path of steemit.com does not, as best we know, exist but somewhere in there is Alpha … I hope!
Over to you …
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