Is Steemit Part of a Wider Trend?

Is Steemit Part of a Wider Trend?

There are a lot of great things about popular social media. When most of the world uses similar platforms, it offers incredible opportunities for global communication. As well, many social media platforms (such as Facebook Messenger) are now moving past their original purposes and moving towards becoming useful tools in most facets of everyday life.
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That being said, many people want more from their online connections than existing mainstream social media sites can offer and are frustrated by the amount of censorship, corporate control, and information collection present in most social platforms. The movement towards a decentralized internet is much larger than Steemit itself. Other platforms such as MaidSafe, LBRY, Ethereum, and Synereo (amongst others) are also working towards decentralization in various areas of the internet.

Decentralization definitely has not been figured out. Scrolling through Steemit for even a few minutes will lead to several discussions from platform creators and users alike thinking through the greater implications of a decentralized internet, the benefits of different approaches to decentralization, and the problems, disagreements, and fallacies that they are running into along the way.

Steemit is definitely one of the more interesting developments in social media recently, and you never know — if it sets a strong enough precedent it could possibly change the way that social media works!

Have you used Steemit? If you have, I’d love to hear your thoughts about the platform in the comments! If you haven’t, what would keep you from trying it out, and what would you like to see in the social media of the future?