If you're going to create a platform that is the Facebook killer, you can guarantee that there is going to be some narratives that come out to smear you because there are some billionaires that have a vested interest in the status quo that will not be happy to see hundreds of thousands or millions of users flocking to Steemit.
Let em try, it won't make any difference to those of us here and now the public is starting to get it and are flooding to the platform it's unstoppable.
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Great quote and so true. I saw that progression time and again with activism movements in New Zealand.
And when the hawks do try to come for Steemit, we have some of the most accomplished myth-debunkers around on our side to shut those smears down :))
Thank god we are finally reclaiming some data sovereignty. It's so long overdue and so important. Pleased to be here with you :)
Suzi,
Politically, I'm probably very different from you, but I admire what you do and your dedication to keeping censorship away from the Internet. Unfortunately, the legacy social media have already surrendered to the powers that be. By the end of the year, according to the lady who runs Facebook in Europe (Sheryl Sandberg) it will have 20,000 people in Germany alone doing nothing but deleting posts. This is censorship of Soviet/Nazi magnitude. And it will soon be all over Europe. This is a huge threat to freedom and steemit is one way to fight back. Thank you for your dedication!
I Like: Data sovereignty :) we are getting cooler people! Now here's my issue Suzi: When this platform gets popular, we will get smoked out. Unless we choose to be the Fidel Castros on Steemit.
Yep. When the mainstream gets onto this plarform, independent journalists will get drowned out (amongst other scenarios which are likely to play out). There will certainly be some interesting challenges ahead. Hate to sound negative, but that is the reality.
We won't be drowned out if we don't follow them! Our feeds will remain in tact.
The only problem I see here is that, I hate to say it but activist, people who do not accept the world as it is are in the minority. You and I may not accept it, I have plenty of friends though who are comfortable in religion, job, politics, family and underlying it all are delusions of grand proportions. That is what societies do, they form delusions. Yes we will have our followers, but will our followers be able to challenge the societal delusions head on and win? How? When the bombs drop and really terrible things happen people like yourself will be a resource and you will gain followers. Against this backdrop though humanity, like an alcoholic, lives a cyclical existence. They will clean up start producing documentaries with Ken Burns and begin the cycle all over again. What we need is a BETTER product. Please if you do one thing today read my Post: Save the World – Collective vs. Individual intelligence. Steemit is a good foothold for us all. It will take revolutionary change though to win the war. The critical question I believe is; what is the platform for the societal delusions we battle; a platform present long before electricity? What are the components and mechanisms for societal delusion? When that is determined then through the miracle of technology we ( humanity) create components and mechanisms to reformulate, restructure, re-something human thought, dialog and the product; the conclusions.
I don't think I expressed myself well, in what I was trying to get across. Obviously our feeds will be clean as you say from not following them, but the main feeds will be cluttered and full of MSM ramblings, that will push the work of Independent media down the chain. Then you have the scenario where we are just living in our own bubble and preaching to the choir. That is a phenomenon that is real and exists. Having said that, I don't think that is the biggest issue. Being flagged and demonetised on a mass scale will be the biggest problem. After all, we all know who actually has the mass troll armies and sophisticated bots at their disposal.
Of course, this is all assuming that the MSM will adopt the platform in the first place. This is where it might not even matter, so just disregard everything I just said..haha
Great comment, I believe it holds some truth. When you look at the world as a whole or you could look at facebook, do they really care about anything, really? That is why I believe the key is in creating. It would be hard to explain here but please go to my post Save The World for a short synopsis. What I am trying to say in an awkward way is that quality trumps quantity.
Do you people ever sleep?
Lol. We try not to. There's a lot of work.