RE: 🗨️ NO Structure, NO Sense, NO Rambling, NO Silence, NO Thinking, NO
Things will be different when I rule the world. 😉
I don't suppose you've got a date for that 😉
I suspect there's a larger stakeholder than Steemit Inc. now but whether that equates to a takeover and change of direction or not, I suspect not.
Can you imagine what would happen to many of the authors if the Old Guard were still here with their stake... how much of the existing content would get culled and what would remain.
It's increasingly difficult to remain optimistic. I'm in another conversation about values and what are Steemit's values? I've just asked if the author how many of the current leadership (i.e. the top 20 witnesses) follows these values. 2 spring to mind and without looking at the top 20, I doubt I'd think of a 3rd.
Doom and gloom. Yay!
I'd be surprised if that's the case. From the accounts I'm aware of, I think that Steemit has somewhere around 48-50M SP on-chain. I'd guess that they probably still have another 10-40M STEEM on the exchanges. I suspect that the next strongest "team" is approaching 30M (?) - unless you're aware of a connection that I'm missing between groups. Either way, if that second coalition was going to change the dynamics, they'd have done it already.
(Side note: I'm very surprised to realize, though, that Steemit probably only holds 10-15% of the ecosystem's value now? Back in 2016, Dan Larimer mentioned that their goal was to get down to 25%.)
Coincidentally, I just saw this in Thoth's logs... Even the "old guard" had a difficult time with many of the same actors. I mentioned once before that I now think that's a big part of the reason why they exfiltrated the Hive wallets from so many non-Steemit accounts -- I suspect that witness voting just provided the cover story.
I was watching an episode of The West, and there was an interesting parallel. The episode detailed how a consortium of large cattle ranchers in late 1800s Wyoming tried to squeeze out the small ranchers and gain full control of the ranges for grazing. This led to the Johnson County War. Some of the same incentives were visible. I might do an article on the parallels, if I find the time and motivation at the same moment.
I'm actually more optimistic now than in the recent past. 1.) there's actually development happening; and 2.) Thoth has proved to me that the incentives here are dynamically adjustable.
I agree, and I'm confident that we're thinking of the same 2. However, to me, values are less important than incentives. If a platform depends on people to be altruistic for success, it's doomed to fail. In order to succeed, Steem needs to have incentives that align between short and long term. In a Maslow's hierarchy sort of way, I think that values are a tier-2 need here.
Back when we had developers that could make layer-0 changes, everyone wanted to strike at this problem by altering incentives at the blockchain level - but Thoth proves to me that this is unnecessary. So, now we know that passive rewards are possible, and anyone can play around with their own decentralized rewards balance. This leads me to believe that eventually someone will find the right balance between delegators and authors. It probably won't be Thoth, but I'm convinced that the solution is there, and it's just a matter of time 'til someone finds it.
This is way longer than I intended, but last mention before I go. I won't be able to watch/listen to this tomorrow, but maybe interesting (or maybe not).
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