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RE: I've Made Up My Mind... It's Time To FULLY Embrace Steem! (SPUD #9 + My Future On Steem)
but we don't really have a choice. would you give up your steem and migrate over to some token on a centralized "blockchain"? not saying that steem is completely decentralized but.. steem proposals, smts, communities, etc would all go down the drain @_@
I don't know. You're never giving a full context.
What if Tron implemented:
That'd be a very very compelling blockchain, don't ya think?
I understand your concerns with centralization, but unfortunatly you'd be able to make that same call ( and many do ) across all PoS & DPoS networks. Anyone can always buy into majority. Hell, it can even happen with PoW networks, and in fact one of the many debates surrounding Bitcoin is whether or not is could be considered "centralized" due to the massive minning pools.
Honestly, I'm not even sure total decentralization is what I've been looking for. It's nice to have, but until we're able to figure out a fool-proof way to achieve it, perhaps we're aiming for "good-enough decentralization". To me, that means: open source, anyone can become a node & attempt to become a witness, total transparency of top witnesses, ability to vote & have a say in proposals, and ownership of all data & assets. Also, I'd want the network to be secure, resilient, & accessible.
I think Steem is pretty darn close to how good we can get decentralization, for the time being.
I'm not sure I echo the same concerns as you do surround Trons, but Chinese government connection erks me slightly.
Ultimately, we have to wait & see. Luckily, we have options. :^)
no. wallet usernames, json, DAO on their own do not make a compelling blockchain.
google a few things on tron, censorship, justin's former cto, and justin himself being the super representative. and like your concern, china doesn't function like a free market and democracy you and i are used to. xi owns justin's ass and justin is now the biggest whale on both chains. if justin ever transcends the crypto market, you can be damn sure a fat rich dude from china is gonna start exercising his power. at this point you're no different from being on facebook and at mercy of the guy who makes the worst fake smile ever. (but he's got better infrastructure so you might as well be worse off)
so you're trading kim jong un for another kim jong un. the difference is you now have added confusion that's gonna cause a split in the userbase with no added benefits. personally i couldn't care less cuz i'd just go for a platform/website/coin with a little more freedom.
i had high hopes on SMTs from the whitepaper. i think a lot of steemians feel the same way (and yes there's others that don't, who care more about steemit.com and don't really care who rules them). all of that [perceived] potential is gone once you swap your steem for some new token from a guy that has nothing but marketing and hype so far. but sure, you can trade your steem for tron or some new token with 100% uncertainty. nobody can force you to or not to.
I've been mulling this stuff over & I think it's best to put my final say on the matter in post I'll be releasing tomorrow.
In the meantime, let me ask you another question: What are you going to do? Are you staying & trying to help keep Steem independent? If we fork would you join the new platform? Or at this point are you just gonna pack it up & look elsewhere?
I'd love to hear your thoughts :^)
i'm having more organic reach on youtube. despite all their political bias and propaganda, it still has less censorship than steem or tron cuz i don't worry about which whale dick to suck or fear everytime i say something.
am i gonna try anything to keep steem independent? no. i'll have an opinion, but let the market decide and i'll go in that direction.
o_O
Ok, I will never be able to agree to that statement, that's literally insane to say hahaha
But that's fine, each their own I suppose :^)
is it? and you're telling me whales do less bullying?
you can keep your text on a blockchain but that's about it. the only difference is who's demonetizing you.
so let's wait until justin starts using his stake and you have to suck his dick if you wanna stay on his platform.
That's not the only difference, you're missing the entire point.
You're not entitled to monetization anywhere in life. But we should be entitled to a platform to voice ourselves.
YouDube doesn't just demonetize people, they will straight up remove you. Look at Alex Jones - a complete and total social media purge.
Steem prevents that. Your argument is missing a crucial backbone.
And please stop telling me to suck people's dick hahhaha x^D
like i said, you can keep your text on the blockchain. you doesn't mean literally you :)
btw justin just announced steemit will now be on tron.
all your posts and content on steemit will no longer be associated with the steem blockchain.
good luck on tron tho.
My content isn't on SteemIt, it's on Steem
"What if Tron implemented:
Wallet usernames
Custom JSON transactions
TronDAO
That'd be a very very compelling blockchain, don't ya think?"
your words. steemit will be on that compelling blockchain.
if dlive becomes a platform where nobody can delete videos (no government nor ceo), i'll start having faith in justin. in fact i'd spend most of my time on dlive. but until then he's another kim jong un / xi jin ping / hitler / ned to me :)
I guess, from what I'm hearing around the grapevine, that's ultimately the goal? BitTorrent & its file-system matched with DLive on a distributed ledger.
Sounds pretty censorship-resistant to me. We'll see what the future holds.
sounds very slow and unusable, even if they somehow get it work.
i believe 3speak claims something similar.
(don't know and don't care cuz they put censorship right in their guidelines - "don't criticize religion" lol).
but again, it's all talks. justin has never shown us anything. no one has.
just because something runs on distributed servers and you call it blockchains doesn't make it more censorship resistant.