Fuck altruism. People will do whatever benefits them. A whale using their stake for the “greater good” is doing so because it makes them feel good for not being an asshole. This blockchain can either make you the fakest version of yourself (doing shit for upvotes etc.) Or it can help you become the realest version of.yourself (by choosing to.be authentic even though you could face negative economic consequences).
The current interfaces/blockchain is not conducive towards producing and consuming good content. People talk so much about steem/dtube because the success of it will benefit them. That is why it is such an interesting topic to talk about. However, people are not psychologically primed for good content because it does not benefit them. A funny or interesting video does not benefit individual users as much as being rewarded for your own content or seeing the blockchain evolve.
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That's why I feel its important to balance things. And one can do so by creating the type of content people want here and as well create content that people can relate with outside the blockchain. If one is pushing traffic to their blog people might start paying them to advertise their services on their blog/vlog, giving them an alternative stream of income.
There were times I was frustrated with this platform and thought to myself I should just create videos and content for the sake of people that are not on this platform. Once you get on this blockchain, you are trying to earn money and all that. If you just get viewers from the outside, they are more likely to appreciate it because they are not thinking about money but read simply for entertainment.
This blockchain has improved a lot since I first joined, so I am glad to see improvements here. There is definitely more we can do here, but at least we have weeded out and called out a lot of the fake people.