What Is STEEM?
What Is STEEM?
I see posts about STEEM everywhere in my feed. There are those who think of STEEM as Steemit—they seem interchangeable. There are others who limit STEEM to either a social media platform or an investment platform. Many who don't use the social media aspect of it will see STEEM merely as another cryptocurrency.
There are currently different folks on STEEM, either banding together or going it alone, that are trying to come up with ways to promote STEEM. I wonder how, we, the every day ordinary user, defines STEEM.
Please choose what you believe is your primary definition of STEEM from the options below. If you'd like to clarify your answer with a comment, please do. If you don't see an answer that best fits your choice, please use other and then talk about what it is.
- STEEM is a blockchain.
- STEEM is a decentralized social media platform.
- STEEM is an investment platform.
- STEEM is yet another cryptocurrency.
- STEEM, as a potential global digital currency, is meant to be much more than any of the above.
- Other (please explain)
Answer the question at dpoll.xyz.
I was just thinking today about how nuanced and complicated this system has become, even just in the time that I’ve been here. I joined to post music, photos, and videos, along with whatever creative writing came along in the process. In other words, B.: A decentralized social media platform. However, since I joined about 10 months ago, we have seen the advent of Actifit, SteemMonsters, MagicDice, DrugWars, etc., all of which shift the focus for many people away from balls-to-the-wall content creation and curation, and more towards usable and interesting dapps that give STEEM various forms of new use-cases. So ultimately, all of the above and more!
Hey, @k0wsk1.
That's my thinking, as well. I think the social media part of STEEM can attract more users, as well as the gaming side, but ultimately, STEEM needs to go far beyond even the online or digital realms. It needs portals to the real world. There really could be all kinds of things transacting on STEEM, so that STEEM becomes a universally accepted digital currency. :)
I guess it all depends on the experience you have in the crypto world and the first Steem "product" you stumble upon first.
If you are an experienced crypto enthusiast you will easily figure out it is programmable blockchain with its currency (to earn, invest or speculate).
If you are new, it is much easier for you to compare it as a social media platform with a cryptocurrency and do not see the clear difference between the blockchain, the coin, the first dApp, and some other concepts.
Hey, @santigs.
Agreed. What you know and/or how you primarily interact with STEEM is generally how people perceive it. While the answers to the dpoll are running in favor of STEEM is a blockchain, I think most of the posts and comments I see around STEEM think of it as a social media platform with crypto, as you pointed out. In my mind, STEEM is meant for much more than any of that, so even among the users, granted, if getting to the earliest intended use is still the goal, there's a lot of education that needs to take place, let alone among the vast expanse of non-users. :)
Technically it's a blockchain that is implemented as a social media platform. I don't believe it is decentralised. Maybe it will fully evolve into a DApp platform of sorts but I see that as a mutation from its original design. The opportunity to become a globalised mainstream digital currency is fading and I don't see that happening on current course.
Hey, @buggedout.
Yeah. I think a lot of people, even among those who have been here the longest, have lost the vision of the globalized digital currency. I don't know if it's just going with the flow, or it's just too hard, or takes too long, but it seems like the efforts are all in on dApps or SMTs (at least as far as the user public is concerned), rather than, how can we get people to use STEEM now.
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Well, thank you, @dpoll.curation and @bluerobo. It's good to see curation taking place here. Guess I'll need to figure out some more polling questions to ask. :)
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Hey, @abbak7.
I appreciate you taking time to participate in my dpoll.
Your answer is what the founders of STEEM would say, I think, at least in its inception. It's what I would like it to be, too—but there seems to be a big difference between where we're at, and where we need to be. Maybe it will be different in twenty years? :)
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Hey, @earnlogy.
Thanks for stopping by and answering my dpoll question. I think a lot of people will agree with you that STEEM is first and foremost the blockchain, or the underlying technology, and that the rest of it, social media platform, investment platform, dApps platform, is all secondary.
Great post, technically it's a blockchain, but it's use is so much more.
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Hey, @flaxz.
Well, thank you. This is my first dpoll, and I'm happy with the way people are interacting with it. :)
And how you just answered is the reason why I did this. It's true that STEEM is a blockchain, and it has a cryptocurrency on it, and a social media platform, and the ability to invest, and more dApps of some kind (gaming mostly), but there is quite a bit more that it could do, and I believe that it's original intent is to become much, much more.
So, it's been interesting to see how people look at STEEM.
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Hey, @bluerobo.
Looks like you and five others (so far) are leading the consensus here that STEEM is first and foremost a blockchain. The rest is just whatever it is because the underlying technology permits it.
This is my first dpoll, so I appreciate you participating in it. :)
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Hey, @niel96.
Looks like STEEM is a blockchain is pretty much what most people are saying, so you're in good company. :)
So, basically, the blockchain itself identifies STEEM, not whatever can end up on it? I'm wondering if your definition of what STEEM is would change if it were to grow beyond what it is now, or if it will forever be first and foremost a blockchain, regardless of what gets built on it.
It's always a blockchain regardless of what's build on it. That doesn't make the dapps a blockchain tho. Dpoll for instance is a poll application but build on the steem blockchain.
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Hey, @spooks.
Thanks for answering. This is my first dpoll, so I greatly appreciate it.