...

It's still very much in beta, but hell they are improving it fast - in the few days I've been using it, they have done a lot of development - it has that new car feel - everyone is really impressed and it's going in the opposite direction to Steemit.

You can just set up a new account on the website, and it's fully anonymous - they seem to be genuinely setting up a censorship resistant platform.

Here is their FAQ summary:

https://pocketnet.app/help?ref=PU8ZM6m46JyTRKzTYmE8qbg5oyhbvP1Xz9&page=faq

$0.03

1 vote

[-]

freebornangel (73) · 6 years ago

Nobody rules where none obey.

We almost forked stinc out, time will see them go away, imo.
Then we can restore the original experiment and see if it sinks or swims.

$0.11

3 votes

[-]

whatsup (75) · 6 years ago

It's good for the other front ends. :) Maybe new users will not question it.
Maybe the blogging site and endusers are too much for crypto.
I don't care that steemit needed to do this, but I am frustrated in the lack of foresight in setting expectations

I even wrote a post about adding complications to an already difficult onboarding process.

I think they tried hard. But dropping the changes in the middle of the day on a Wednesday with no plan on how to handle support, frustrated me and has onoce again shaken my confidence in ever retaining users.

$0.10

2 votes

[-]

aaronhawk (57) · 6 years ago

Wow, ok. This is depressing.

$0.07

1 vote

[-]

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago

And that’s sort of an understatement.

$1.70

2 votes

[-]

mhm-philippines (71) · 6 years ago

I saw these ads also of late. I suppressed one that I did not like and another popped up where that one was. We always have to hope someone knows what they are doing. One of the great things of Steemit is there has been no such ads.

$0.00

1 vote

[-]

s0phos (41) · 6 years ago

oh I see, you also wrote an article about this subject.

Well yeah, airdrops would be a suitable solution too. At least this way the community would somehow profit from this incision

$0.00

1 vote

[-]

mnox (33) · 6 years ago

Just use other front ends.
Steempeak is my favorite now. Busy is 2nd.

$0.00

1 vote

[-]

chesatochi (72) · 6 years ago

Life is not free and the reality of the crypto bear market push new option on the table. You have the option to use a another front end or a ads blocker.

Posted using Partiko Android

$0.00

[-]

brianphobos (70) · 6 years ago

Personally I have felt the Steemit needed other revenue sources for a long time so the whole model wasn't to dump Steem they ninja minded every week creating all kinds of sell pressure. I haven't seen the new wallet feature yet or messed with it but it seems like more users are upset about that more than anything. I just wonder how many people will totally be locked out of their accounts.

Posted using Partiko Android

$0.00

[-]

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago

Why would anyone be locked out of their account...? 🤔

$1.83

2 votes

[-]

brianphobos (70) · 6 years ago

Because of the new wallet site and a lot of people just had their password saved in their browser and they could become confused and just give up even if they have a few hundred dollars worth in their wallet. Some people won't even try to visit the website for several more months when crypto surges more. There are so many inactive accounts.

Posted using Partiko Android

$0.00

1 vote

[-]

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago

Well, as understandable as that might be, at the same time, if people aren’t accepting FULL responsibility for managing their keys properly, they’re bound to fuck themselves in this game at some point or another.

It’s ALWAYS been stated upfront and clear : SAVE AND BACKUP YOUR PRIVATE KEYS.

IF people run into that complication, it’s no one’s fault but their own.

$0.03

1 vote

[-]

brianphobos (70) · 6 years ago

True but the attrition levels were already high. This will likely wash out a whole other set and upset bigger investors on the way things are handled. It is unfortunate what has happened to Steem. It never fulfilled its potential. Possibly that can be realized in MEOS.

Posted using Partiko Android

$0.06

1 vote

[-]

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago

You heard anything about the token model they’re using for MEOS?

Given the “Steemit 2.0” reference and way things have been going with BEOS giving tokens to BTS holders staking on their chain, I’m curious (and perhaps hoping) that MEOS might do the same - offering to airdrop their tokens to existing Steem holders, rather than everyone holding Steem losing out on what they’ve already earned if Steem dies and MEOS succeeds...

$1.69

1 vote

[-]

brianphobos (70) · 6 years ago

I haven’t heard anything. They have been very hush hush about it. I briefly talked to Dan at the EOS hackathon back in November and he just mentioned they were figuring out the key system they are going to use.
Hopefully steem holders do get a distribution. That is what I would do to onboard an already large community.
I have a feeling there will be some sort of facial recognition software they will employ to verify people are only using one account on the network. I don’t know that forsure but if they are going to do some sort of Universal Basic Income there would have to be someway to verify individuals so it doesn’t get overran by bots. Im not saying im for this but I just have a feeling

$0.10

1 vote

[-]

rok-sivante (75) · 6 years ago (edited)

Facial recognition and UBI...?

Jeezus, this sounds pretty next-level.

It’d be interesting to see how the facial recognition feature rolls out, though - given it’d most likely require one of the newer smartphones with such technology, it’d be excluding alot of people from accessing it. Even with my iPhone 8 I couldn’t - let alone shitloads of people in Africa, SE Asia, etc, who are just using more entry-level phones...

$1.61

1 vote

[-]

brianphobos (70) · 6 years ago

$0.00

[-]

markkujantunen (74) · 6 years ago

The floor is now open for anyone to share how this could possibly be a good thing...

How about creating a fiat revenue stream, the likes of which are needed to ultimately justify a non-zero price in the future?

$0.00

[-]

ace108 (77) · 6 years ago

The ads are flashy all over the place when I looked at it in my morning but interesting when I'm out in the afternoon walking around rest of the day and using Chrome to access, I didn't see a single ad.

$0.00

[-]

freebornangel (73) · 6 years ago

When do we restore proof of brain now that we have pushed proof of wallet's tyrant from the throne?

$0.00

[-]

bozz (70) · 6 years ago

I agree with you, I think it is pretty sad to see ads on the site for people that are logged in to Steemit. That being said, I understand why they are doing it. Giving some form of dividend back to the faithful doesn't seem like a bad idea to me though. Companies do it all the time and find a way to keep going and stay out of the red.

$0.00

[-]

chireerocks (72) · 6 years ago

@rok-sivante, This is the area where Centralisation wins. It's not wrong or right it's just what it is. No ad days were awesome but now we have to see more ads on our favourite interface. But good wishes for the team.