I know it's very early in the game, so maybe this observation of mine lacks some necessary perspective, but... I can't help but to not like the difficulty levels there. I mean, I know that it's going to get a hundred times easier to create wallets, get your aidrops, etc, but we can't deny it's a land for us nerds, and us nerds alone.

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In my EOSian exploration I found a blogging platform that is trying to directly compete with the STEEM blockchain and it offers some interesting features. Maybe you've seen a post or two about it, it has a very particular name, Trybe.

I have to the say the purposeful misspelling of a word that symbolises community is quite clever, as it allows for the word to be registered without losing its cognitive meaning. However, I would like to say that I find nothing wrong with the current way it operates, but of course, it's very, very early in the game for them and it shows.

Post Submitted for Approvals?

Now, if I'm understanding this correctly, when you write a post, make it all spiffy with the words and the sentences and the pretty pictures and what not. Then, you would click on the submit your post for approval and go look at some paint dry for a while.

Of course, I currently don't understand what determines a post worthy of being published, or if it's done by humans, some skynet level AI or something even more nefarious. I'm simply speculating that a system that requires approvals, is probably not very scalable.

Ok, let's be ridiculous, just for a little bit. We have 1.5 million transactions on this blockchain per day more or less, right? Well, let's leave the bread and the cheese out of this one and talk about posting exclusively, not comments, actual posts. Let's say that out of those 50 thousand active daily users all of them post on average 1 post per day. I know this is not the case, I know that there are extremes all over the place, but I'm simplifying the sandwich here, remember? - Well, our little social experiment is still insignificant when compared to the big giants and I can't even begin to imagine the amount of manpower it would take to sort through 50 thousand posts per day.

Wife - "How was work honey?"
Husband - "one word... pancakes"
_{Shoutout to !pancakes}

You see what I mean? It would probably cause some sort of side effect of the likes that a psychologist would write books about for generations and I wish I was exaggerating, but I sincerely think I'm not. But, again, I might be completely off and not understand how the approval system works actually.

If it's an AI

Then it's a matter of time before someone find "the workaround" and spams the network. Of that, I'm very sure. Why? Because we are humans, and we human everything. You know what I'm talking about right? - "I wonder if it breaks.... BOOM..... OOPS!" - Yes, that, precisely that.

What happened to censorship resistant?

That is what I want to know, because I thought that was the cheese flavoring to the cheese itself. This reminds me quite a bit of those questionable macaroni and cheese boxes that proudly say - NOW WITH REAL CHEESE FLAVOR - They always make me think "What was in this shit before???" - Anyways.... I digress.

The point I'm trying to make is that our little internet 2.0 is supposed to be edified on top of unstoppableness. Look what you made me do, murder the english language because I needed a new word. If we have cryptocurrency projects that allow censorship, then are they really cryptocurrencies? I'm seriously asking, because it seems to me they need to be labeled differently.

No doubt the competitor to Steem will come

But I have my doubts it will be something like this. Now, it could be successful, it could very well be a great blogging platform for a specific niches. But, it won't really be a social media experience. At least it seems that it does not have the necessary underpinnings.

However... What do I know?...Maybe just one thing one thing...

That's not yogurt