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RE: How to Save Steemit - My Uninvited Opinion
Good idea on opt-in advertising, but you can't have "censorship resistance" and business advertising together. Public corporations at least can't allow their brand to be screen captured in context with many of the content creators that are being censored elsewhere. That's WHY they're getting censored in the first place. It's all about the money.
This was what I was going to say. Ads would be trading one problem for another. Become beholden to corporations and then they begin dictating what can be allowed. They will become the gatekeepers to what is fake news and what is real, what is real science as opposed to fake etc etc. Alternate versions that are contrary to not only their image, but their product (if they are shady, which so many are) will not be tolerated. The path to freeing our community from censorship is not to hand the keys over to those who are known for censoring.
I think in general this platform/community is in the process of needing to clarify its guiding principles. It has recently come out that what we thought were those of Steemit Inc. in fact never have been. See this from Luke if you don't know what I mean.
So are we foremost about paying content creators for their content? Or about being a platform rewards pool tokens can efficiently launch on? Or about being a blockchain social media site supported by advertising? Or about being censorship resistant social media? Or what? We've been having a bunch of parallel conversations because there are disconnected ideas of who we are even trying to be.