Interesting read. What you wrote here is something I am still getting puzzled with. I am very curious where this platform will be in a couple of years and how de-centralized social media will grow in general.
I used to have this doubt that people will join Steemit mainly to earn money instead of simply being inspired to create. Which would mean that main motivation of people here would be greed. But more I thought about it, I realized that Youtube is almost same nowadays (some creators just do it for money, some to create).
Difference comes of course in a way creator get payed here comapred to Youtube.
Also I have seen some exploatation of Steemit that might seem quite unfair to many users which also puts some doubt, but again, there are exploatations on other media platforms same way.
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I don't think you can get away from the fact that most people will be inspired to join Steemit, or other Steem apps because of the pptential for payouts. If they were just inspired to create, there are plenty of other places they can do that. But money, where it's available, will always be the overriding factor.
I see the Steem platform as a big experiment - it's the first of its kind, and is still evolving, so it really must be. What will be most interesting to see is where the community, who on the whole are left to self-manage and govern will take it. There's so much potential, but greed will always play a part when money is involved.
Here's keeping my fingers crossed, because I'd love to be an early adoptor of the social platform(s) which change the world.
100% my thoughts :)) Well, it's definitely good to get involved with this kind of movement fast, because even if there will be coming some competitors I think this community will be one of the 1st to know.
Also really curious what will Facebook/Youtube and other platforms response will be. What they will come up with O_O