RE: Portrait and preview to an incoming rant about the SoS :D

I didn't attend, because I thought the idea of using Discord for a distributed blockchain discussion was laughable. Plus I hate Discord.

I thought I've been whingeing on about development of curation efforts too much...but if they're gonna talk about onboarding... Onboarding is not what should be focused on any time soon. We're not ready. We have to fix the problems here first. To do that...well...we have to fix open source development so more gets done, and make it easier for people to find and reward good posts.

I don't think there's any issue with people building other things on Steem though. They're doing it. Steem Monsters is doing great. There's no problem there. The problem is with the primary application. It's making Steem look bad to have this social network that's supposed to reward good content that's actually just doing ROI with bidbots, while a ton of good posts go unrewarded.

Bitcoin will go up and down and take the crypto market with it but it doesn't help when people don't believe in us.

Onboarding is not what should be focused on any time soon. We're not ready. We have to fix the problems here first.

We don't need to onboard people to Steemit, Steempeak is as ready as any Steem dapp is going to be for a really long time, every other social platform didn't start in it's current state. The users can adapt with the platform.

I don't think there's any issue with people building other things on Steem though. They're doing it. Steem Monsters is doing great. There's no problem there.

I don't mean to say there's a problem with this, I just don't think it's the highest priority. Without working on UX there won't be people to use these businesses.

It's making Steem look bad to have this social network that's supposed to reward good content that's actually just doing ROI with bidbots, while a ton of good posts go unrewarded.

The fix for that is more people. It's not anyone's responsibility to upvote anything except whatever they want to upvote. If a user is not getting any/enough upvotes, that's a problem for them to solve, not the system. If you went on Facebook and just started making posts without any connections to either family or friends, you would have a similar experience there. People need to onboard their family and friends and anyone else they think will care about their content.

This idea of universally "good" content is flawed. There is only "relevant" content, or content that is good to each individual. The value of google/Youtube is not that there's a ton of good content there, it's that ALL the content is there, and they have sophisticated tools to connect you to the relevant content specifically for you. There's a million times more spam and trash on those platforms, you just don't see it because you're not looking for it and they're good at pointing you at stuff you'd want to see.

Those are a collection of billion dollar algorithms and we aren't going to have that any time soon, so we've got to work with what we've got or give up and go somewhere else.