Will you be buying the DTube SMT?

Rumor is that DTube will be one of the first major SMTs when SMT technology launches on Steem sometime this year. The interesting thing to note is that DTube provides similar benefits of Youtube but with a different government. It must be noted that there is a controversy on Steem about censorship. Certain notorious Steem accounts are auto downvoted by bots (such as accounts associated with promoting Bitconnect). This in my opinion means that Steem is not censorship resistant in the way people expect.

Steem is censorship resistant to a point but you can still be demonetized

It is possible for accounts on Steem to be demonetized. You can have multiple accounts on Steem in theory if you want free speech but demonetization does happen. DTube is different because if you are demonetized on DTube the consequences are likely more severe for the Vlogger. Dtube developing an SMT means DTube may have it's own unique moderation system and could evolve along it's own path separate from Steem.

DTube as it's own ecosystem and with it's own evolutionary trajectory?

DTube having an SMT means at least in theory the reward structure can be entirely different. This means we can have different whales of DTube vs the whales of Steem. In my opinion this is very very good for the entire Steem ecosystem because it solves the problem of early whales dominating the payouts. It in my opinion resolves the bickering that goes on with the reward pool by creating a multitude of reward pools. This in my opinion will reduce the necessity of arguments against for example reward pool abuse because with an SMT you can in theory launch a new version of Steem with a totally different power distribution.

Busy for example could launch an SMT. The Busy SMT could provide for BusyPower instead of SteemPower and those who have it would be able to vote with the higher or lower weight according to the BusyPower. This means whales today on Steem have no guaranteed future advantages once SMTs catch on. For this reason I think SMTs are the great make or break moment for Steem and DTube is in my opinion the flag ship example SMT.

I do intend to buy DTube SMT if it launches

As a primarily text based blogger I do see the writing on the wall. The future is video blogging. DTube will in my opinion make sense to buy to diversify away from Steemit. In fact I predict DTube to quickly surpass Steemit in importance because Steemit (being a reddit clone) is limited. DTube in theory could combine the best of text based conversation while also enabling video chat by simply plugging it in. At the same time when people discover Steem, I would expect most will discover it via DTube going into the future rather than Steemit or Busy. Busy I think will still exist but mainly for more elaborate long form blogs and this in my opinion becomes much more possible if Busy adopts it's own SMT with a reward structure that can reward posts beyond 7 days. In other words, an adjustable reward schedule is a desirable feature because text based bloggers in my opinion need to be encouraged to produce timeless content rather than report the news (which is best for video bloggers).