I Was Wrong About Steem
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6 years ago in #partiko by stellabelle (75)
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I am also worried about Steem's future. The prices and popularity are bad now. I have been here for 8 months. The Steemit project got me very excited and
I have powered up my Steem power when the price was 1.4 USD. I can invest more but I am worried about the future of Steemit.
I heard for the first time about Steemhunt. Thanks for mentioning.
I think you did well just taking on a new project, discovering 'what's out there', and drawing your own conclusions about it.
Even though this blockchain and its dApps are not centralized and we don't have to be afraid of being manipulated into some algorithm that gets and keeps us into a bubble, also on Steem we can get stuck in a huge echo chamber with one side being super pessimistic and one side being overly optimistic.
I'm on the optimistic side, by the way, but that also means I like to read people who are just as optimistic as I am, lol, thus creating my own echo feed :D
Going away for a while and really seeing what has changed and what direction Steem is starting to develop must feel like a breath of fresh air :-)
Glad you're back and seeing the beauty of all that's happening here, I see all that you've mentioned in your blog as a great overview but also as just the beginning of all that is to come \0/
Very valuable post. A great lesson for all to read and take to heart.
Focusing upon the surface level is a mistake. Too many look at Steemit like this is a large part of the STEEM blockchain. It is not. The site is something right out of the 1990s. There is nothing exciting nor innovative about it.
It is still the flagship simply because all users are still directed here for signup. That is about to change with HF20. At that time, the dapps will start to exert even more control. People are amazed now, wait until there are 100 or 200 dapps all on the STEEM blockchain passing out tokens.
There is a lot more to come.
As for Steemit, that is going to experience a major upgrade albeit not from the Steemit team. The Bench team forked the software and are improving it. If Steemit wants to incorporate what Bench develops, they will have the opportunity for instant upgrade without having to program it themselves.
Hmmm Bench team, eh. This sounds interesting. Have you written about this? It might be worth an in-depth article.
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Here are a few.
https://busy.org/@taskmaster4450/steem-fork-by-dweb-improving-steem
https://busy.org/@taskmaster4450/bitshares-dynasty-fork-of-steem-and-dweb
https://busy.org/@taskmaster4450/the-bundling-of-steem-bitshares-and-eos-could-it-really-be-happening
In finding the growth underneath the trending page, it’s important to fight against my own emotional reactions. This is the part where most humans fail, and why real success is so difficult to achieve. We have to fight against this urge to go where the herd is... the ones who succeed wildly go where no one else even breathes... and they convince everyone else to join them.
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I'm glad you are back. Although from now on I will always associate you with bananas! Change is good, and I have learned that we should just go with the flow and see where it goes here on Steemit. We have all worked hard to make this what it is and even if we don't agree, there is not much we can do until we see the final product. xx
There is certainly a lot of new positive developments happening in Steemit. Thank you so much for highlighting the Partiko iOS. I have been using esteem apps and will give Partiko iOs a try.
I feel the same way as you. I looked around and researched a lot. Steem has the largest blockchain based Social Network Community in the world. Just like you I was very fearful of getting Myspaced last 6 months but now looking at what's coming and already starting to happen I how no doubts Steem is heading for the path of mass adoption. Most critics are only looking at Steemit.com and not what forming on the Steem blockchain. The Steem Total Eco-system is what will give massive longterm value to the token. Someone once said on here that once a dapp has surpassed Steemit.com in popularity that's when you know the project was successful! There's so much going on now with Steem Apps I can barely keep up with it. Reminds me of Ethereum in late 2016 before the price exploded.
Stella, I for one Im happy to see that you are back, to see that you are comfortable opening up like this, sharing yourself on the platform.
Differences aside, there is something akin to core community here, for better or for worse. A group of people that refuse to leave, refuse to give up, and have decided to battle this out till the bitter end.
I'm with you on many of the frustrations you've shared, regarding the steemit landscape, but just like you, I've chosen to focus on the blockchain itself STEEM and look past it.
I got my head up, I'm looking forward to possibilities, to a decision that might be life changing not only for me, but for everyone around me, everyone I love.
So again, I'm happy you are back... welcome home.
Thanks for your message. I think for me it’s healthy to be critical so that I am not blindsided....so the last five months have been a huge growth period. People forget that all us early adopters took a massive risk by putting out energy here. We risked a lot so we will either be doing very well in the future or will perish together! Lol
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I think Steem will do well in the end although I think the price will go down in the short run.
I have also taken a look at a few other platforms like Minds, Narrative (which is still very early on), and was waiting on ONO English. I lost interest in all of them and have become very devoted to be a part of STEEM's success.
I'm much newer to this platform than you (6 months) so I think I don't get as discouraged by things that can seem like devolution to old timers, but have always been here for me. I've never cared what was on Trending. I started off searching for tags that interested me, and quickly found writers I like to read who were willing to engage with me. That set my STEEM experience off on a great track, and no amount of bidbots, trending pages, or self-voting whales has ever detracted from my opinion of the place.
I think it's good to recalibrate expectations so that where STEEM really is in its development is seen more beta. We are still so early on. And yes, HD20 where people won't have to start on the clunky steemit website and also STEEM stops being thought of as steemit in the broader world's "mind" will all be a huge part of that.
There are actually 400+ STEEM dapps right now, though only about a dozen are full fledged UIs like steemhunt, dtube, etc. We stand at the initial stages of something truly unique that has strong first mover's advantages.
This is good insight and I didn’t realize some like you aren’t bothered by the issues here
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I am happy to see you back. I'm sure you noticed I started distancing myself from ONO shortly after the delays started, but once the announcement was made that it will not be on the EOS mainnet I took down my video and will not support it in good conscience. I wish them the best, but my understanding of the Chinese government and censorship leads me to believe that being on a Chinese controlled and centralized blockchain will essentially inhibit global adoption and ultimately create a liability for liberty minded users that already face punishment and government harassment for their social media interactions. These are just my thoughts and based on my own experiences, but I still appreciate the opportunity that I had to learn and grow from it. Hopefully they prove me wrong, but either way I'm glad to see you back here, because I think 2019 is the year the STEEM blockchain is going to go full speed to mass adoption.
Yeah there were other red flags too and a gut feeling that I just could not wipe away... i hope for the best... I wonder when the Steem cryptokitty moment will be? In 2019? Shall we make a bet?
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