Duh??? I thought we could really do without these services from this point forward...

in steemit •  8 years ago 



To see this within Steemit is a bit odd don't you think?
Isn't this what we Rebel against? 

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Nah, it is a good thing, facebook/twitter are different beasts, steemit is more for long articles.

Every revolution leverages some of the infrastructure, services and platforms of the prior status quo. No revolution (so far) has existed in a vacuum. In this case, for Steem to grow it must capture adherents, and where better to capture these than in the traditional social mediasphere?

Since new users are given some steem for signing up, there needs to be a to keep people from stealing those rewards. Those provide a way to keep people from making tons of dummy accounts.

Ok, that's a good point. Facebook indeed does a good job and give you a hard time to create multiple accounts that stick...