Much like the community here on Steemit, Dtube, Steepshot, and all of the above, there's a sentiment to break from these hierarchies that are now so large that they are have imposed rules that we haven't elected for some time. When the entire web is structured around ads, did we ask for that? When the web went from freely available to develop, to closed walls, key-loggers, asynchronous analytics trackers, e.mail captures, and the rest, at what amount of distance are we now with those making the decisions?
Thomas Paine made similar remarks, not the first, and not the last, but at a time where they were heard intensely in the economy of ears, that is, the market of attention. We are in an attention market again anew, with this blockchain charter of freedom, re-establishing the rules. Not interested in hereditary powers claiming the iron throne of the web, but a voluntary one.
Monarchies, central realms of authority have been taught to be pragmatic and wise (with little historical avail) to whom they surround themselves by, as those ears bent their way always accompany whispers, and mostly, those two things have always been about fulfilling the power and bias of the crown. Is it any different today?
Paine assessed beneficence by way of ports, we have IPFS. He mentioned the market of defence by navy - we have SHA-256 and proof-of-work. The power of debtlessness was not lost on his words; Bitcoin was created in part as an argument against debt conjured by the banks. To be indebted to each other, a community, a network, however, is a kindness all too necessary a matter worth pursuing.
A revolution is best not when the table is flipped, but when the flip occurs when we are already eating at a better one. Steemit and the decentralized world is the beginning of that better table.
Our fork is in hand.
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▶️ IPFS