I'm Ransu and maybe...
On many occasions and projects I've been involved in social media and content platforms, content producing and importantly, business models. In my opinion everything is hard: getting traction, blocking/killing/avoiding bad content and making it financially viable to all the players.
World has now few killer "social/commercial platforms", including Facebook, Uber and Airbnb. They keep amazing me everyday. However, there is a chance that these mega successes are last of its kind, build by entrepreneurs turning into billionaires and financed by blue-chip Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
It might just be that in the future, the most powerful platforms are decentralised, financed by anyone who believes in them and build so that they distribute wealth more equally to all participants. You might be now browsing one of them. Maybe.
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now if they can make a facebook replica on a blockchain that works this well I'll be in heaven.
I think Facebook is a winner and should not be tried to be copied as their traction is incredible and also advertising is not too intrusive and they clearly offer a value to users (by looking at how much time people spend on the platform).
But Twitter is clearly something that needs to be replaced and Reddit is beatable as well. Twitter is a massive failure. Everyone is on the platform only because they work in media or marketing, I have zero friends who have started to use Twitter and say it's amazing/sticky/useful.
I really hope that Steem can figure out a way that this comes a platform of communications and meaningful content, not a place where everyone is just promote themselves or their business and they follow/like/vote your content just in a hope that you follow/like back.
I get that. And totally agree about twitter, I hardly use it because of those same reasons and hate having to limit my thoughts or having to dumb them down to make them fit.
but I believe Facebook could be a lot better if it added a concept like this... we the users,content sharers and commenters are the only reason there is value for the advertisers... the people and ideas/discussions are the main reason I'm on there, people sharing new artists etc gets me to click on something a heck of a lot more than any "sponsored posts"
Yes, ideally you have both. You have a system like Steem that allocates money to good content and contributions and then you have sponsored posts as the world is still commercial and companies wants to advertise and good targeted advertising is not that bad.
Remember how Digg had that model where advertising was voted, just like content and good ads had to pay less to advertise than the shitty ones. I think this could totally come back to Steemit and when doing so, those ad revenues would add to the platform value and be good for all of us.
I don't mind the advertising, as you mentioned facebook does it really well. but if they are making money literally because we exist and choose to use their site we should get a piece, and of course users with thousands of followers/viewers would earn a bigger piece (I hope views are taken into consideration for payouts on posts here) if they make steembook facebook will become worthless