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RE: Witness Update - Upgraded My Node To 0.20.2
You have some good points, and I don't know what's going to happen either. There are knock-off Steem chains like WeKu.io that are basically the same thing as Steem. No word on whether they have better retention than Steem.
I think it's better to take a step out and see what happens as opposed to doing nothing. I think the bigger changes are going to come when bigger improvements are made, such as the communities and SMTs. If the dial doesn't move after those are implemented and adopted, then we might be in trouble.
Maybe. When the crypto markets are pretty much lockstep with Bitcoin, it's hard to tell if what each has going on their chain is really making that much of a difference. I'm just talking internally. Not sure how we can expect the big boys to arrive if we're losing the smaller guys left and right. Big guys don't post. They don't curate. And they may or may not upvote, by proxy or otherwise. So, it's delegate to apps or bidbots to make their hundreds of thousand make more hundreds of thousands. But that takes small guys who want to post, comment and curate.
So far, all this delegation has resulted in at least three Steemit clones and counting, a retro YouTube, a decent streaming service that's now deserted, a bunch of instagram knockoffs and now a Pinterest doppleganger. Woohoo. :) It would me much easier, I think, and much more lucrative, just to port from the existing social media to STEEM. Forget about all of these third rate apps floating on the blockchain. And apparently you don't need SMTs to do it, either. Not according to Steempress and the new one connecting to Instagram.
I used to think I was born about 30 years too late. Now I see I was probably born about 15 years too early. Instead of creating with words, I could see myself creating with code. But my brain wasn't wired that way from birth, so it hurts my head to think in machine language over human language.
I don't really know enough about all the apps to speak to them specifically. I think the idea is that something that is "distributed" is better because it can't be shut down by a single, controlling entity. Therefore, even if streaming on the blockchain isn't as good as Youtube, it's still "better." I can see the value in not being able to be shut down, but some of the services haven't caught up to their mainstream counterparts yet.
The older I get the more I keep thinking that I would have loved to be born later. There's so much new and exciting stuff going on. I want to see more of it. Then again, some of the things I saw have been because I saw it when the world was a little more innocent, so things weren't as restrictive. I think it's about making the most of the time you have when you have it.
Oh, I agree about that. Not much else you can do anyway. Or, I suppose you could be miserable if you wanted to.
I get the decentralized part. I'm not sure what is decentralized and what isn't. I get decentralized is better. I've been reading some comments by lextenebris and he's not all that keen on blockchains. Not sure what he'd advocate as an alternative—other than he likes mesh networks, but anyway, it looks like we have our super majority, 17/21. And it looks like we're still up and running.
It's a brand new world out there now. We just have to figure out how we're going to fit in. Some of the ways will be the same, but we'll have to learn some new ones too.