First off I want to state that I truly believe Steemit can be something great. It tries something different. It tries to give creators credit for the hard work they put in their blogs. And I really like how the community is supposed to give money to valuable content. Without further ado, on to my thoughts:
Yesterday evening I was browsing through steemit - as usual. And I couldn't help but wonder how much content is obviously just copy and pasted from youtube or some other platform. It just extremely annoys me when I see posts like "A few informations about x ICO", or "Have you seen the video of this shark attack?!" and when you open it, it just leads to some youtube video - clearly not made by the poster. Not to mention all these nsfw/porn vids or gifs. I have nothing against sharing informative or funny youtube videos, go for it. But I think it is just not okay that you get money for doing so. At least the poster should acknowledge in his post that the video wasn't made by him. I just think Steemit should take better care of this situation. I believe a lot of youtubers would want to move here so they can get paid for their videos on a fairer basis, but it will never happen if you can just "steal" their videos and get paid doing so. There has to be a way to prevent this from happening.
Another thing that attracted my attention yesterday was the fact that there are a lot of "alternative facts" circulating around on here. I want to be really clear on this: I am 100% supporting free speech. I think you should be allowed to say/write anything, and be judged based on the validity of your arguments.
I just couldn't help but notice that there is a surprising amount of "flat earthers", "evangelists" etc. active on here. And they are doing really well. Now I don't want to say that these people should be thrown out of this community, I just think there needs to be a more logical, fact based counter movement also being attracted to this platform. Maybe I just randomly stumbled accross a lot of these "vaccines kill your babies", "your government lies to you about the real shape of the earth" kind of posts - I don't know, maybe I am way off on this one.
So these are my observations I wanted to share with you. Please let me know your opinion in the comment section down below. I would really appreciate it! Let's discuss this and keep makeing Steemit a great place for everyone!
Greetings,
ggorwell
P.S.: Not a native, sorry for eventual mistakes.
