@Khrom brought up some very interesting points that show not only why DPoS will not be a successful social media platform as it is right now, but the mentality behind the structure, that ensures it's lack of success..
The use (blockchain), and the utility it offers (value), lay in far more important directions in my opinion.
These directions are something that can never be addressed- or investigated - with the current libtarded, socialist/collectivists ethos of the majority.
Why ?..Lack of personal conviction based on ethics.
It's all about the token prices and 'getting rich'...
This was my comment to some points that he raised , and the basis of his reply to me. (the one discussed in this post).
(khrom's comment)...Without good content and engagement Blurt becomes toilet paper.
Which account on blurt over this last 12 months has more genuine engagement (numbers) and range of topics (and genre), than myself ?
Which account has the least support from 'muh witnesses'
Which account was threatened to be frozen?
The blurt blockchain t-shirt, 'doesn't say how the mouth behaves', I guess..
(krom) Without good content and engagement Blurt becomes toilet paper.
"I wouldn't upvote you if you wrote the next Shakespeare.." ...A witness?..lolol
(not that it really matters much, now - imo).
His comments..(parsed)
@khrom
But the thing is that the situation is like this because there are too few people and too little commitment. If instead of 1,000 active people there were 10,000 or 100,000, among them you would certainly find more curators like Mariusz and me who support your content and so much would not depend on a few.
Or...alternatively - the situation is like this because the crytpo sphere and DPoS specifically - is a platform that is based in an authoritarian rule, where merit is not rewarded if it goes against ideology, but sucking up to large stakeholders, is. (socialist in ethos).
For example - Substack's.
This platform started in 2017.
Substack announced in March 2023 that it had crossed the 2 million paid subscription mark
Substack generated 24.57 million visits in September 2021, up from 18 million in April 2021
The exact number of Substack users is not publicly available, and only 5% to 10% of Substack users subscribe to a paid newsletter. In April 2022, Substack.com received 30.6 million website visitors.
Substacks users, content creators, vlaue content - and pay for it ! (not even some conceptual coin).
QUALITY CONTENT PAYS.
At the time f of inception - media personalities, journalists, and you tubers were CRYING OUT for somewhere to publish.
WHY...Why did they not flock to DPoS social media?
Stefan Molynuex, styhexanhammer (to name just two very successful content creators in their own right, and well over a million followers to their channels), dabble into steem - and then left.
They had zero support and promotion from ideologically driven leftoids/libtards.
(but jerry banfield had $100's of dollars for his 'crypto to the moon', material).
'Build it and they will come', only works if what you build is an attractive proposition.
All the free market, merit based creators either left, (or are still downvoted to oblivion on hive).
Subtacks WAS an attractive proposition to content creators. - the results reflect that if you compare it with any dpos platform with a , nepotistic, 'crabs in bucket', mentality.
When the product is not content - but token production - the building doesn't appear to be so attractive to those with merit based ethos - and 'they' certainly ain't coming....
....to avoid going around in circles re- what 'the product' is - lets define it as 'the item or service available, at the point where a trade is executed, between parties'....
' The trade '- is tokens - not content.
@khrom
It is obvious that if someone doesn't support you, they won't support you. Unlike hive, however, we have eliminated the problem that if someone doesn't like you, they not only don't support you but also downvote you.
Well, personally I don't like Shakespeare, so I wouldn't vote for him even if he wrote here personally :P
NO!
This is not 'obvious', at all.
If Karl Marx was blogging his communist bullshit on blurt- I would upvote it.
Why?
Because it has value (just not the same value that the 2nd cousin to Rothschilds thought it was, while he was writing it).
...and if you didn't upvote the quality of shakespeare if he appeared on a blog for 'personal taste' reasons - and not cold hard business reasons - that would make you a retard ! ...lolol
(I've presumed a 'tongue in cheek' response, from yourself in this case.)
See the difference?
One perspective is based on a personal preferences and 'likes' - (the DPoS mentality) - and one perspective is based on quality information.
The downvote function only goes to serve those with the authoritarian mentality, more- it does NOT eliminate the psychology behind the people who wish to control others free speech.
(see @megadrive' s change in his blurtblog platform - where any user can censor another user - and that censored user - if using blurt blog- IS INVISIBLE to all other users (and not just the account that muted them).
.....The psychology of those with the authoritarian (control freak) perspective will emerge - one way or another.
@khrom
The issue is that you always do some centralization because blockchain is a reflection of what society presents itself and society is highly centralized and we have 90% of the wealth in the hands of 1% of psychopaths.
Blockchain DOESN'T reflect that - for all the idiocy in the current culrutral zeitgiest - it IS shifting back to sanity (as I pointed out a couple of years ago) - and that is the issue that libtarded dimwits can't seem to comprehend.
Subtacks, medium, patreon, subscribestar, models - ?????????????
....Unless , of course - it was NEVER actually meant to, and is just a 'token printing ponzi scheme' to extract wealth from the naive, into the coffers of the parasite class...hmmm....
(that model kinda has more 'solidity' to it, doesn't it?)
... Even if it was intended to be a social media platform - The DpoS construct means that the only way it can ever be altered is by buying tokens and thus enriching the authoritarian nazguls along the way (funny, that...hmmm).
To change the system, you must FIRST, make the people who created the system, very wealthy...yeah....er....how about...NO..?
How about support a merit based platform instead, and see organic growth from the quality of the product ?
@khrom
The problem is that already on Hive it was possible to observe that there was a certain dispersion of this wealth and this system worked, but that was when Nazi organizations such as hivewaters entered the picture and were destroying those who did not want to allow their influence on the platform to increase too much. Look at all those who don't think leftistly.
See the lack of support for users on blurt who show- BY ACTION AND TIME INVESTMENT - 'commitment' (that's me by the way).
Why the lack of support?
Because I 'offend' people with my truths.
Because I'm 'howwible'.
It's pathetic. It doesn't reflect on my material - but it does reflect, and show, the childish, emotionally retarded mentality of those witnesses and large stakeholders.
@blurtbooster, et al - it's truly cringe worthy - and people who visit the site , see this , day in and day out - An attractive look to find more users - or a nepotistic perspective to reward 'the in crowd' of fellow nazgul ?..hmmm... )
@khrom
....here, although such a megadrive would certainly be happy to downvote you together with others, they can at most wave their finger and due to the fact that there are not enough witnesses who will agree to freezing accounts (not to mention the fact that it would be suicide for this blockchain) in this matter they won't do anything either.
Yeah, but THINK ABOUT IT.
17 witneees to make a decision such as this.
17
1000 users, and 17 over emotionalized libtard collectivists to make such a decisions on another persons account...based on butt hurt ego pain, and offended, 'muh fweellings'...seriously?
Can you not see how this looks to the outside world?
....17
It would still be 17, even if there were 10,000 users with that 'powerrrrr'..(bless).
Merit based platform don't have this problem....and users actually pay to see the content (not some free token ) - ....because it has value...
@khrom
(not to mention the fact that it would be suicide for this blockchain) in this matter they won't do anything either...
But it is never known.
It is a subjective matter, based on time, personal preference, fear of loss, and circumstance - that's all.
How many times have I posted about large stakeholders (the ones with the most to lose) supporting my initiative to fund the website entirely from blurt upvotes - and promote it (one way or another) ?
For me personally, and i have been in this EXACT situation regarding an ex-employee of mine who branched out on his own.
He was a very smart dude, with creative talent oozing out of him (far more talented and intelligent than myself).
While his new venture was not competing with my own - they did have 'crossover' points.
What did I do ?
I advertised his new company, and supported the fuck out of him - and wished him all the luck in the world..
Why?
Because it was good business to do so.
Now, lets have a look at all the recent upvotes from large stakeholders since I mentioned my initiative, and extrapolate from that in terms of -
a) business acumen - seeing the big picture of my initiative in terms of blurts success..
b) ego issues, and the inability to let critical thinking and logic because of ego.
c) the longevity of a platform that's based on poor a), and b), qualities...
Shall I do another mic drop, just for effect?
Hell, yeah !
I think I know your problem. You are an idealist like i was. You want to show people their corruption but no one listens.
I'll tell you this. Don't delude yourself into changing something because it won't help anyway :P
During the pandemic, I attended many protests, participated in many actions, and wrote many articles and comments. All based on facts, all showing the absurdity of what is happening. No one listened... No one except people who realized for themselves that something was wrong.
The rest wanted to thank us for sacrificing their time and risking being whipped, hit by a stun grenade or even imprisoned (this happened to several of my colleagues) to save their miserable asses from their own stupidity: baton, prison, sanitary segregation or social alienation.
People don't want to listen and never will. We said there is no pandemic, they didn't want to listen and stayed at home, wore masks... we said don't get vaccinated, they didn't listen and now they are dying...
So the only thing you can do is stand as the 1%, surrounded by a cordon almost larger than the number of protesters, just like I stood there in Warsaw:
...and create a problem for those 80% who would like to sweep common sense under the carpet. And hope that the remaining 19%, who are quite knowledgeable but not so brave, will gain courage and deal with the 80% who have no brains of their own.
And I am doing the same here as one of 30 witnesses who have influence and as one of 21 whose voice is decisive.
I stand there and create a problem for those who would like to painlessly introduce tyranny here, I talk to those who see the matter similarly and I hope that eventually some front of change will emerge.
Because changes are very possible.
it doesn't have to be 17 +1 witnesses, it can be 200 or 2000 but I will tell you honestly, referring to what I said about the pandemic above, that the less the better.
If there are fewer witnesses, there is a greater risk of a specific group taking over the blockchain, but there is also a greater chance of throwing this group off their seats. Blurt, as well as hive and steem, are characterized by one good thing which I always give as a big +.
There is no such thing as a "witness term" or an election, and a vote cast can be withdrawn as quickly as gained. This makes changing these 20 items if people decide to, easy and quick and can happen within a few days.
Now imagine that decisions are influenced by 170 out of 200 or even 1700 out of 2000 witnesses... if pandemic statistics show that 80% of the population is passive and just listens to TV, how much greater chance do you think there would be that among 200 witnesses or 2000 Will you find those 170 or 1,700 who will accept the proposal of one influential totalitarian? ;)
You are fighting windmills here because it is not this blockchain that is broken but global society. And as long as 80-90% of global society follows a group of sheep showing their faces on TV and does not think for itself, no programmer will create a system that is not filled with corruption, profit and selfishness.
Here is no easy and simple function to close the mouth. It is possible to freeze an account, but it is not as easy as clicking delete and it does not go unnoticed. there is no demonetization function and these two things already mean that Blurt is better than 90% of the Internet ;]
In my opinion, this blockchain is one of the best current attempts to create a system for mature and thinking people, not children, but the problem is that children also participate in it. What you see in the Blurt is the result of what would happen at the beginning if, for example, anarcho-capitalism, which you seem to support, was introduced overnight.
Everything here can be changed with Hardforks in a better direction. What is now is the result of the mentality that created steem and apart from the removal of the downvote function, no other significant changes have been introduced so far. Interestingly, it happened because the MD tried to block your account, so Investors and the community reacted and there was an impasse in which no one could make anything for over a year until everyone reached an agreement. For me this is proof that it works. In a broken system, you would be long gone.
This is why you are a witness i still vote for .
Know when you stood your ground in Warsaw ,
I faced the riot cops in Amsterdam .
First , anarcho-capitalism is changed ,. it is Voluntaryist induvidualism now . Where the movement knows ,. not to rush it or force it trough . For any change for the good must come up from the bottom and not be poured down from the top .
It is why i now do my thing mostly offline , with people face to face .
In friendly communication i just plant simple seeds ,. seeds that may or may not grow in to something good one day .
Moved from Liberstad Norway to Montelibero Montenegro ,. where i for the most part are connecting to libertarian Russians ,. who fled their country to be free . Spreading the word about private free city's and how that could be .
now i really have a problem ,. for i do not speak or understand any Russian ;-)
I never planned this either ,. i just rolled in to it .
All i ever wanted was to be free .
Keep that position friend ,. and maybe one day , blurt may change .
If not ,. i respect and credit you for giving it a good try .
The same way i respect the penguin for doing his thing .
( @lucylin is no anarcho-capitalist ,. he beliefs in monarchy ,. just look how he always calls himself a king )
,. yep , ridicule , it is a potent weapon ,. or at least something to make the targeted have a laugh .
;-)
...and ^this ^ is why you should be president ! ..lol..
Good comment - in the early days of steem there wasn't enough time in the day to post, read and reply to such posts/comments - then the system showed itself to be 'not fit for the (supposedly intended) purpose.
I'm not quite the idealist you think, my friend - and I'm not an anarcho capitalist , either - soz @small1axe !lol) - see the same belief in the pareto principle as the reason I'm not, and as you stated with the problems of 'the 80%'.
As for your perspectives on DPoS - we do differ. Not from ideological issues, but pragmatic ones.
Pragmatic issues concerning the human condition, and the various psychologies - that can be clearly seen to manifest themselves over the last 6 years.
If I'm incorrect, time will tell - but I see no evidence, as yet - that suggests I am.
As such, I will 'do my thing'...according to my own ethical framework and free market principles.
Cheers, matey.
Anarcho-capitalism is so 2019 ,. it is Volunairyist individual now .
The capital became just a handy tool .
Whoops !,.. those fermented sardines ,. Burp ! ,. sorry .
;-)
We're gonna need a bigger plane...
If there is going to be war let it be a star wars edition damnit. I want to choke my dick with the force.
I hope we get a princess Leia, upgrade !
Sorry , even if it seems lots of people thinking they live on a other planet ,. there still is only one planet .
So no space ships needed ,. a truth bombing plane or ridicule missile will just do fine .
This so called war is only a mental construct of the mind and not for real .
I am a non violent person ,. i only shoot mental bullets straight from my mind .
If they become physical on me for that ,. i will become violent just to defend myself .
Just watch a episode of Buck Rogers ,. and see how it was pushing the alphabet community .
And the plan to create Ai .
That armband and metal kid are enough to choke a real mans dick .
;-)
Crapitalism and anarchy. Do they contradict each other?
(Some)Anarchy principles is to have no ruling class. Pushes for a voluntary society. Organizations is good. Ridicules and opposes ideas that require force and deceptive psychological ideas.
Here is an example on how a world may look like when cult think isn't such a big issue anymore:
And then there were none by Eric Frank Russell
Crap|it|all|ism - I have some favors towards traditional capitalism, without the existence of central banks or banks period for that matter.
Anyways, the crapitalism of today is, accept there is a ruling class that decides for us what the price should be and how much of our labor goes to those that do nothing for us. Wealth distribution of your labor without your say so.
Here's your paycheck economic slave.
Where as traditional capitalism, everyone can be there own boss. Money flows evenly all about. People add value and they get to decide how to to sell it and distribute it and not the higher ups alone like in modern crapitalism.
Mostly though, because of cult think, crapitalist will use "government" to force people to work and guilt trip them into feeling honored to work harder for less.
I think it is possible though, if human condition can stable around the idea of voluntary doesn't mean obedience, buuut that is what tools are for, because we can all defend ourselves if things get hot. If it ain't a gun its a knife, or bows and arrows, or rocks, fists, teeth. Literally anything can become a weapon.
When more lose their cult and take the authority glasses off, they will see anarchy always was, and we can have capitalism without the crap in it.
central banks = no free market capitalism.
Mathematically impossible, when the issuer of 'money' and debt, decides on the value of it as well (interest rates).
Capital is just the recourse needed to build what ever kind of society on .
That's why it is so funny to see a commie spit on capitalism .
For capitalism is the base for communism to .
Thinking it is a good thing to take by force someones private capital to make it public capital is pure evil . As we know by now it is public capital that is always used to create a war .
BTW ,. don't tell ,. but i am really a pirate .
I used to force government owned merchant ships to give me the goods .
And gave the crew of the entered ship always a choice ,.
Join me or be dropped of at the nearest shore .
Hollywood made me look not that good .
So i now call myself a non violent voluntaryist anarchist instead .
Just to get rid of that falsely given bad reputation .
;-)