Also, when someone curated content by his own, it's better for the platform
Exactly. Take a look at trending. Korean posts upvoted by upvu. No comments. Can such a platform attract new users?
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Of course no. I haven't seen that trending page for more than a year for sure. It's like a laundering machine of money.
Interesting thread - I'm not sure where to butt in!
IMO would be great to take the lessons of the past 6 years, from when Steem was launched, and start again! This whole finsoc (financial socmedia) setup has some great ideas - it also has some really sucky ideas. The dilemma remains that money and socmedia will always converge towards the MONEY - even other platforms not graphene-based have suffered financial parasitism.
It would take a longer and separate article to go through a wish list of features, then analyse how they can be subverted, then also list which features are not wanted, then also see how the structure of the chain affects behaviour, in the sense that scripts have always been allowed but they also depend on how the API calls are structured.
Might be worth that discussion - if for nothing else, to dismiss a lot of myths - coz there are lots of those too!!
I think this is far less the case on Blurt because of the low value of the token, and the ease with which it can be earned. It seems to be creating a culture in which the emphasis shifts more towards having fun with the social side of the technology, whereas on the other platforms, the token is the all-important objective because it is worth more but harder to accumulate.