Hey Steemiacs and welcome to another video!
Today I wanted to bring up a few topics that were worrying me for the past few days.
Let's start with an email my bestie Alina from @theveganisland got from YouTube basically kicking her out of the partner program for not reaching a certain threshold. In my opinion this is a new step YT is taking to put the people down. I believe it comes from the recent adpocalypse where people get demonetized for everything they do, they ask for another review (which this time has to be done by a person and not a machine) and they can't spare the sources for small channels that don't reach the threshold.
It makes me sad to see these first steps that really put all of us creators down and there's no doubt in my mind that this is the just the beginning. It makes me so much more grateful for steemit, dtube and steepshot as this place is just so full of potential, and I am in the process of getting anyone I know on here.
But at the same time, I'm a little worried. I have trust issues in general, and when this week all I saw in the trending tab was this giant whale wars, I started freaking out. Whales were abusing the system in this way, this whale did this to this whale, blah blah blah. I was really discouraged to see all this drama here as well, and I remembered reading a comment on my first post saying that when anti LGBTQ+ groups come to steem and power up, they can flag me and vote me down and censor me in that way. And I guess it's true to everyone.
When I joined steemit I was really excited for a new platform that is being run by the people, with no censorship, powered by cryptocurrency and actually rewards creators and curators. I thought this could actually be the future with all of us working together to build a community and all that, but now I genuinely don't know if there can be a "perfect" anarchist, self governed online community.
Is the problem with steemit? Most likely not. I honestly think steem has the most potential out of all the social media platforms that ever came about, and I really think it's the closest thing we have to "perfect" as of now at least, but maybe there can't be a perfect platform cause humans aren't perfect. There's probably always gonna be someone that will abuse the power in some way and that sucks, but that's humanity I guess.
Is that enough of a reason for me to leave? Hell no! But I just wanted to share these thoughts and worries with ya'll. I would love to hear what you guys think of this subject! Leave me a comment bellow with your opinion and let's start a discussion!
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Henya
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