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RE: Is Steemit becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists?

in #steemit7 years ago

You are right I was wrong. Steemit is different than Twitter and Facebook. I am still new here and still learning how this ecosystem works. I should learn more before I speak.
I noticed that bots here have effectively been "shutdown" because of the inherent nature of Steemit. I am speaking of spam bots. People individually call them out. That speaks to the decentralized nature of the system.
I really like that no one can hide their messaging on Twitter and Facebook people with money "advertisers" can send messaging that is not public. They can target individuals with tailored ads. On Steemit all is open.
Also steemit is decentralized. Right now twitter and facebook hide the information that would bring sunlight into their systems. They delete and censor for various powers in the world and then the public does not really know what is going on.
The other social media platforms like to sort information by how popular it is or how much ad revenue it brings in.
If there is a problem with bot spam I think the system and the people here can figure out how to take care of it. The spam bot activity I have found here seems to get starved off bandwidth wise or the witnesses find a way to slow them down.
Twitter makes it too easy to spin up bots and have them spewing 1000s of messages. it is much harder here.

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" I should learn more before I speak."

Please! It's no problem, you had perfectly reasonable concerns, don't sweat it!

I joined around the same time as you, so I'm still learning too! ;)