RE: OpenLink: The Gateway to OpenSeed and Steem
I can see a great future ahead for a cross platform application that can enable communications to persist between users on other platforms. Discord, Gab, and other platforms have attempted to do this, but focused on types of platforms, such as games and media sites. Skype and Slack have focused on business and development environments. If Openseed is broadly agnostic, it's users will be able to interact in a one stop shop across media, game platforms, and various development platforms as well, reducing app bloat and complexity, as well as inuring that collaboration from censorship and deplatforming.
Given the blatant censorship that has been undertaken on many media channels, and has become highly disruptive in China, and globally regarding the health and food crisis there, such censorship resistance may prove not only desirable, but existentially necessary in unforeseen ways going forward.
I sure hope y'all can pull it off.
Thanks!
As a web designer, I was working on a Facebook competitor website that we called Mea Omnia in 2012 and we were trying to make it a one stop shop. Our project failed. Now, I like Steemit. And also, this Open Seed thing appears to be promising, like you said, as a cross platform. So, I do wish the best for this project. Speaking of Gab, I do use Dissenter which lets you comment on any web page on the Internet via the Dissenter add-on or tab inside the web browser.
I got censored on Dissenter. I'm outta there.
Limits:
Dissenter appears to have limits. I remember a few comments didn't go through for me in 2019 and possibly 2020 as well. There may be limits to how often or how many comments can be posted on a single web page. It could be technical errors, as in malfunctions.
Spam Block
It could have been when my comments were very small or if I was trying to copy and paste the same message onto the same web page, as in duplicate comments. In other words, it may not be censorship.
Good Censorship vs Bad Censorship?
And by the way, I'm not against censorship. Instead, I'm against publishers like Facebook who pretend to be platforms as they say they will not censor anything and then say they do censor things.
Transparency
I prefer transparency. I prefer that a website tells me what their rules are. They should follow their rules. The problem can be selective enforcement of the rules. I'm not saying that they should censor or that it is censorship. It depends. But if they say they will not censor and then censor, that is a bigger problem. If a social network has one set of rules and then suddenly changes their rules without telling their users, then that is a pretty big problem.
Dissenter
I'm not saying that Dissenter is perfect. But it is the best page commenting add-on that I've ever seen. Well, to date, the only one I've seen. I'm also trying to say that censorship is fine within the realm of private property. Now, technically, certain parts or certain aspects of the Internet can be or might be public property, completely or to an extent, in some ways, long story. So, it can be argued that public town squares offline and online should not be censored at all or to an extent.
Private Property Rights
But private property owners should have the right to do whatever they want with whatever that they might own. I believe in ownership rights. I believe in private property rights. All of this can be complex with all of these different things. I like Dissenter. But if Dissenter is perhaps doing what they should not, then I hope other things can compete with it.
Dissenter & Steem
Same thing with Steem. If Steem goes down the wrong path, excessively, aggressively, without original oatmeal, then shame on them, long-term speaking.
I appreciate your substantive reply, and exposition of your views. If I can't speak freely on a platform, I've no interest in using it.
Do you have the right to do anything you want inside my house?
I have no interest in being inside your house, just as I have no interest in using censoring platforms, if I can't speak as I want while I'm there. You can make whatever rules you want for your home. I don't have to go there.
I don't think Dissenter does what you are accusing it of.
I have been giving thought to this comment all day, and have come to the conclusion you may be correct. All I actually know is that the program stopped working. I don't actually know why.
I have seen many similar failures happen, and assume malice when it could actually more likely be my own incompetence.
Thanks for convincing me to be more rational, and to better hold myself to account.