Proposals: STEEM citizenship comes with both rights and responsibilities
STEEM is (sorta) decentralized social network and all we people, who are active on it, could certainly be called its citizens.
Every citizenship, of course, comes with both its sides. The rights we have as a part of the community and the responsibilities we hold.
I think the most of us are pretty much well aware of the rights we have - to have a stake in the blockchain, to receive rewards, to have certain freedom of speech and anonymity, the liberty to express ourselves in a bit broader way than what's allowed on the centralized social media owned by particular legal entities and so on, the list isn't short :)
However, we should not forget the other side - our responsibilities to take care of this fragile international community of like-minded people.
All democratic counties place elections on a regular repetitive basis and proposals are the feature that is as close as possible to that side of the modern countries governance.
I believe that no matter how big your stake in the blockchain is, everyone should check the STEEM Proposals and vote for the proposals that make sense to them.
The page listing all STEEM Proposals is accessible via the STEEM wallet: https://steemitwallet.com/proposals
Frankly, I don't have any financial or economic education so I don't understand those "return", "inflation" and "convert" proposals.
Today, when I revisited the active proposals though, I gave my vote to the "Modernise steemit.com Interface" by @the-gorilla : https://steemit.com/@the-gorilla/modernise-steemit-com-interface-dao-proposal
I am a bit surprised, let's not go with "shocked" to see there aren't many Proposals to improve the interface and add new features or dapps to the platform.
There are so many features that could be improved and new features to be added.
I spent some time to understand the "Bringing Steem Back to the Future with a Decentralized Sidechain" proposal by @futureshock and really loved the title, it's really spot on :)
Observing the processes on Solana in the last months, I don't know if we aren't too late to the game, but it's definitely better late then never, that "back to the future" part. We need that sidechain ASAP. Moreover, we have to offer at least the same set of features the competitors offer too and then have more features that are unique to our blockchain.
So, note to myself to come back in a week, once the proposal in active and vote it.
By the way, I consider myself a technical person, so I'd like to be a sidechain witness, if hardware requirements aren't too expensive ;) Why not! :)
So hey, have you checked those proposals out and have you voted for any of them? ;)
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Those two proposals are worth it, I think. I'm voting for them shortly.
Thanks for bringing the attention.
The one about the side-chain is going to be open for votes after 15th of March ;)
Cheers :)
Right! Thanks for the note, calendar reminder it is.
Cheers!
Thanks for the mention!
A couple more have been added since you wrote this so there might be even more to get excited about.
I just hope that some of use receive enough votes to put our words back into action!
Awesome. It's great that something new and exciting is happening.
The developer portal... I probably shouldn't be bringing this topic at all but the closest single word to describe it... probably "rubbish".
The last pull on github is about six years ago, lol
It all looks abandoned and that isn't good for attracting new developers and investors...
I spent almost two days to try to install steem-python on Windows 11 and then gave up after trying for more than a dozen times. Fixing one install error, another one popping instantly. I want to use the most up-to-date python distributions, can't risk my pc being compromised. Moreover, I have the feeling that even I manage to install it, then some stuff won't work due to API methods changes. No wonder some witnesses have their own libraries, developed from scratch, non-open-source.
I think this all has to be addressed if we're looking in for a brighter future :)
Maybe remlaps recent post could help you
https://steemit.moecki.online/hive-151113/@remlaps/getting-steem-python-to-run
Thank you, that definitely looks promising, I'll give it a try, although meanwhile I was having fun with json-ing the APIs directly. :)
@the-gorilla, I couldn't find in Condenser a method that returns a list of the active API full nodes?
Beem has NodeList().get_steem_nodes() and I have no idea where that info comes from...
Code:
from beem import Steem
from beem.nodelist import NodeList
nodelist = NodeList()
nodelist.update_nodes()
nodes = nodelist.get_steem_nodes()
print(nodes)
Output:
['https://api.justyy.com', 'https://cn.steems.top', 'https://api.steemit.com', 'https://api.steem.buzz', 'https://api.steem.buzz', 'https://steem.61bts.com']
The NodeList class has some standard nodes and updates itself depending on availability. There is an account @fullnodeupdate for this purpose. The results of the check are stored there for everyone to access. Unfortunately, the node list is no longer maintained by beem (on Steem?). The last account update was in November 2022, so the current new nodes (e.g. mine) are not even included there.
If you would like to know which current nodes are available with which response times, you can use these pages:
https://steemyy.com/node-status.php
https://ecosynthesizer.com/steem/nodes
You can add the best nodes for you to the Steem object as a list.
Thank you! When I was searching online for the most up-to-date list of the full nodes, I found a few resources that are different from those you shared :)))
Justyy's page says these response times are from the browser but that didn't made any sense to me, as logically that would be the response times from where that page is hosted, so I pinged some of the nodes from my command prompt and got completely different response times.
That whole matter came to me as I am a sucker for efficiency and I'd like to use the fastest node that's as close as possible to me :)))
The most logical thing would be the full-nodes list to be available through a Condenser method but it seems that isn't available, one of the downsides of decentralization, I suppose :)
Not necessarily. For example, if the queries are executed on the client side. This is also the case on Justyy's page. I can also confirm this, because in my case the scripts are blocked by default and I can see on Justyy's site that the information is only available when I allow the requests to the respective servers. The speed is therefore only measured in the browser.
I can't tell you how the times are measured. However, if you measure the speed with Ping, the data will of course differ.
I think you're right and it seems to me those response times on the page are bigger because they include the api method processing time as well ;) Ping will always be faster unless it's a method that does nothing :)
Ah, I can't help you much with Python. Anything I do with Steemit is either with Condenser (on the main site) or via PHP / JavaScript and I predominantly use steemchiller's API (for reading data anyway)
I'm sure that I saw a superior Python library but can't remember where. I don't think it's been checked for security vulnerabilities but I think it's had a lot of work. @moecki might remember where it is.
Well, I have working knowledge of both JS & PHP but Python... is just more fun :D
Perhaps you mean the Beem library? It's also quite old now and what I don't like about it, it works both on STEEM and HIVE, so potentially unsafe too. Probably I am just too cautious. :D
Condenser - I suppose you're the perfect person to ask to confirm there are already many differences between the Dev Portal docs and the up-to-date methods? :)
Thinking more of it - a new proposal for maintaining the Dev Portal makes sense and while I would normally hesitate to do real development work, I would love to spend some time working on updating the docs.
I’d like to think that’s something that would get support.
I’ve not looked - if I need to do something, I’ll see how it’s done elsewhere or find an equivalent. Some of the communication with Hivemind is something I’ll try to understand better this year but other than the /tags fix, I’ve not needed much knowledge of that yet. Although my introduction of avatar and cover images in communities which crashed the site might have benefited from this capability!
For my own projects, I use steemchiller’s API for reading data and steemjs for broadcasting.
I see some differences that I don't understand yet.
For instance, a json request to condenser_api.get_account_count results at the moment:
1930142 (when I use https://steemd.steemworld.org )
and
3655647 (when I use https://api.steemit.com )
More confusion in. :D
2M accounts sounds more realistic :)
Good question that I can't answer! It could be related to the Hivemind database that each API is querying. api.steemit.com is guaranteed to contain everything but it's more likely to be a slower API. So 3.6m is probably true.
I don't know... I mean about that number. I guess I have to write a small script that loops all the APIs and calls that same method. Some other basic methods as well, to compare the output and the execution times, perhaps that would be useful.
By the way, another major block of info that the Dev Portal lacks, is Glossary with all the building blocks of STEEM such as, what's Condenser, what's Hivemind. There is a glossary right now but it's missing a lot...
Upvoted! Thank you for supporting witness @jswit.
Привет, дружище!
Правильно ли я понимаю, что ты хочешь стать Свидетелем на платформе?
Если это так, я готов за тебя проголосовать :)
Hey, that's right but so far for the side chain (eventually if it goes online)
For the main chain, the spare machine I have, I am not sure it matches the requirements. I'll have to ask around.
Thanks in advance, if I go there, I'll let you know :)
Have a great day!
Сейчас платформе не совсем легко, как я поминаю, серые дни )
Но я вижу оживление среди Свидетелей. Может быть кто-то займётся развитием Стимита наконец-то. Джастин Сан ... я не знаю, что на уме владельца, хорошо, что он хоть оплачивает банкет, но в развитие платформы он не вкладывается (или я чего-то не вижу).
В любом случае я тебя поддержу, дерзай )
Thanks a lot!
I see developers and witnesses active lately so that's a good sigh.
A side chain with tokens to mint, etc. will really add a lot, as new apps and games will be developed on STEEM then ;)
Я могу оценивать работу только по результату. Пока наши результаты плачевны как никогда в последнее время.
Остаётся надеяться на лучшее ))
Well, all crypto coins are crashing lately, mainly thanks to trump, musk & DOGE actions. My opinion only.
I think many investors lost trust in crypto and STEEM is just marching along, nothing special or different :D
Better times will come for sure, maybe not so soon... I am not selling any STEEM any time soon :)
Согласен, спекулянты на биржах ждали, что Трамп начнёт закупать биткоины и прогрели цены на него. Но Трамп опытный торговец, он обманул их ожидания. ))
Думаю, что через некоторое время стоимось криптовалюты будет расти.
У Stеmit есть время для роста.
Я тоже пока не собираюсь ничего продавать :)
Yep! Why not!
Indeed :)
Now waiting for that side-chain to happen :)