First Steem Post, Intro, Questions to community, Ranting and cryptocats

Hello Steemers, my first post here, so it’s going to be a little bit of introduction before getting to the meat of it.
If you’re not that much interested in my personal stuff, you could easily skip this and proceed to the Questions part.

Introduction

Childhood

I was born into struggling post Soviet Union environment, where social values have been disqualified, and struggle for the liberation was at its peak. First 10 years (now retrospectively I could state that) I was witnessing the decay of the old infrastructures and struggle of the local communities looking to establish their identities. Punks, nazis, skinheads, all kinds of anarchists were rivalling against each other and media propaganda, while the ordinary folks did mind their daily business routines.

Schooling

It wasn’t bad, I think it did a great job teaching me, just that it still does put a lot of stress onto children, which is then carried over to adult lives. The teacher’s job salary was (and still remains) on the edge of bare survival, so if you failed your business only then you’d go and working at school. Am I the only one who sees a problem with that?

Dotcoms go BooM!

I guess we were far away from it geographically, so the stock market bubble didn’t affect it here at all, so all we got was the realisation that there is a world beyond the Television. At that time a certain image of the world was created by the media, censored, groomed, and probably biased. The internet of porn was now open for everyone, it was the time when we realised that Eminem wasn’t a bad guy anymore, but a dude in a suit that had a family.

Ok, Google

And then big daddy appeared, he had the answers to all the questions in the world. Why would you spend time reading books, learning something, if it could be easily accessed in a matter of seconds? The libraries became cemeteries and museums for the ways of the old school, no bother reading, I’d rather learn a new skill from youtube, handwriting no more required and any relevant idea must fit into 140 chars to exist.

Insta-production

Acceleration is incredible, almost to a degree when it’s impossible to follow along. No time to explain, just get onboard and start posting selfies to get instant satisfaction. No followers gained? Then I guess it’s because you failed to locate the hype. Set aside the blockchain technology, which is just a security layer, it could be live broadcasting and augmented reality that might be exploding soon, but thats not even a new modality, but rather an expansion on what we already have.

Bottomline

• almost 10 years full-stack web-app development
• philosophy is what makes us humans. doubt everything
• art is the new God, or rather its expression into the World

Questions & Problem exploration

Nobody reads anymore. Honestly, I don’t ‘read’ online the way I do with paper. Blog posts are so damn back on the past. Articles now should be short and straight to the point, solving one problem at a time, giving clear 1. ??? 2. ??? 3. ??? 4. profit steps.

Its not clear yet, wether steemit establishes a problem solving platform, just as stackexchange, or is it a sharing space like reddit does. It seems to be doing well getting the Patreon kind of engagement, but it’s doing that its own way, I don’t see it giving enough options for that. And it’s clearly not the tool to get get publicity as twitter and instagram does.

1. Whats the value proposition of the steemit? Is it about sharing and reposting content or is it content generation?
2. What is currently badly missing from steemit for you? is it mobile app, is it image uploading, is it video uploads or broadcasting?
3. Excuse me for being snob, or not doing my research well enough but where’s the revenue for steemit coming from?
4. I could have added a link to my sonic/musical explorations as a backing track to this rant, do you want to see that in my future posts?
5. Less words, more kittens?

Thank you all and and keep it steemy.

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