Steemit whales and pool chair towels
Our whale problem
Towel balance & the pool chair problem, Rens van der Vorst at TEDxBreda, Netherlands
Steemit seems broken. Maybe it's the gigantic inflow of new posts, improperly managed, or maybe it's the entire ecosystem below dying while the earliest-adopter whales floating up top, but something's got to give. This constant wallowing for likes is a big smear on an otherwise robust framework. I wish there were more fora so our almost 100,000 users could start dividing more organically. It just doesn't make sense to have a single front page of maybe 10-20 articles (many of which stay on for days at a time) while thousands of new users are joining daily, vying to be heard. I'm not hungry for a piece of the financial pie either, that's not what brought me here. I'm just sad that this great project has turned into a capitalistic venture instead of being primarily an arena of information exchange. Everyone is yelling, "Look at me, look at me!", but the follow-up comments peter down into self-congratulatory ego boosts exchanged like so many tennis volleys.
Come on, Steem. Let's get on the ball. Let's reshuffle the towels a bit so we can all have a whale of a time.
Steemit is only a few months old !!
It takes time, in another 3 to 6 months there will be so many more dolphins ... it will be great!
Just give it some time.
Excited : )
Steem is a scam and it will soon collapse, a few made their money and have been lucky but many others will not be able to follow the same path.
Maybe so, but I'm not too concerned with those guys. For me, this system is already revolutionary in decentralizing media while also incentivizing its honest production, with content verification happening almost immediately through potentially hundreds if not thousands of eyes. Imagine what this could mean for whistleblowers, journalists, or even local artists! These people could perform their craft and be fairly compensated for it, for the first time in a long time.
Steemit still excites me, it just needs some reshuffling to make it useful again.
I do not see how Steem is a scam, as a scam entails fooling people into handing over money for something worthless which they have been told is a sure-fire money-maker. That is not what Steemit is. Nobody has to invest money in Steemit, only invest their time in writing and curating posts. That the likelihood of your posts being popular enough to make you a 'whale' is small does not make this a scam, either. It just makes Steem like life: A few get significant monetary reward for their efforts, most get barely anything.
its a ponzi scheme pyramid, you need people to invest in you and others need you to invest in them. The more you earn the more powerfull you get, its exactly like a ponzi scheme, being the top gets you the most support.
Oh yeah, definitely not a scam. My beef with it though is that it's not curated from the top very well. I wish there were more options and better ways of divvying up content. It would be neat to be able to filter stuff out based on region, language, topic, and I'm sure many other ways I haven't yet thought of. I almost wish there was no central page of popular posts, but many central pages based on these filters. Or like a map you could click through to find your region, for region-labelled posts. Or, or, or... but I'm sure it's all coming.
And the Ponzi scheme argument is true but holds no weight because, well, this is how currency and reputation operate by definition.
Good post, wish I could reshare it
:)Thanks, buddy. Unfortunately it's not quite Diaspora on here yet ; ).