RE: What If This Post Didn't Earn Anything?
You know big business are control freaks, they will not join steem until things like what steemit.com is seemingly gearing up to do with "mute" options and such are thoroughly implemented, and even that might not be enough for them. I honestly think that public publishing platforms are never, I mean Never, going to see adaptation from big business, after all, if the overwhelmingly conscious userbase doesn't have a field day over the litany of corruption that plagues almost all big business, from collusion with scumbags of one kind or another to outright fraud and lies, their competitors will and just imagine if you were in charge of a shitty mega Corp if you'd give people a platform under your content to raise hard questions and intrepid concerns.
I was thinking today that if steem ever goes mainstream there will be very little left that I came here for. How ironic.
However, if I loved mainstream things, I guess I wouldn't be here in the first place.
There's a huge difference between mainstream and catering to multinational corps that have their fingers in everything from mild things like cheap labor exploitation/child targeting campaigns and ruthless consumerism promotion to the nasty stuff like economic warfare and blatant criminality, the former to me means that Joe and Sally use steem to interact with one another and the rest of the community which is where we are and have been, while the later means compromising the ethos of this place, things that few have yet to appreciate even (immutability, public forums/public publishing services, transparency and trustless decentralization).