RE: Eating Your Own Dog Food: Is the Steemit, Inc Team Regularly Using Steemit? by bashadow

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steemit · @bashadow · Oct 20 '17

Okay so at any time steem can take my account and lock me out. Steem, and steemit can make any rules they want, that I understand. So is steemit owned by steem, or is steemit a third party provider to steem? Is busy.org, chainbb, or zappl, owned by steem? To fricken confusing, maybe I should just throw myself under the facebook short bus. Or the Youtube prison van. Or like I did 10 years ago, just leave social media alone.

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@voorash · Oct 20 '17

Steemit Inc owns the Steemit website.  If you create you account through Steemit they are by default your trustee which means they can help recover your account if you get hacked.  If however you use a third party tool to create your account steemit has zero power over that account.  They have censored some people for posting illegal material but even then it is only by blocking it in the front end.  Once something is confirmed on the Steem blockchain it is there for good.

Steem itself is software.  It can't make rules.  The witnesses can change some settings but they can only change the rules by changing the software itself.

To make it simple, the people at steemit inc did build the steem blockchain but no one owns the blockchain.

👍 cosmo.crator

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@bashadow · Oct 20 '17

I wish I still had my Johnny Cash Silver album, because if I did I'd be playing Muddy Waters Rising song. I think I will just sit back and try to enjoy Steemit. No need to add complications or other problems on top of it. Thank both of you for the assistance. Are you @voorash or you @winstonwolfe witnesses? I have only voted for 10 so far so if either of you need a vote let me know, you have both tried to help me, so that is worth a vote.

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@voorash · Oct 20 '17

I am not at the moment a witness.  I have considered it but want to make sure I am committed long term before I do.

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@winstonwolfe · Oct 20 '17 (edited)

"Steem" is not a company, it's a blockchain on top of which the Steemit.com website operates. It will not "kick you out" or "lock your account", because it is not a living entity. 

The Steem blockchain is not dependent on Steemit.com to exist.
But steemit.com *IS* dependent on the Steem blockchain to exist. 

Steemit.com is but one company that operates on the Steem blockchain. 

Think of "STEEM" like a smartphone, and think of "Steemit.com" as one of the apps. Many apps will operate on the smartphone (steemit.com, busy.org, chainbb.com, esteem, steepshot, etc), but taking away an app makes no difference to your smartphone, right?

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@bashadow · Oct 20 '17

Thank you and @voorash: I still have no clue really what the blockchain is, a little bit better understanding of it now, but only a little bit. My account was created on steem or steemit not sure, it was a free sign up and they started me off with something like 14 STEEM POWER. So I will stay on steemit, and view all others, right or wrong thinking as third party providers. Once again thank you for the help in trying to get me to understand what is what.

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@winstonwolfe · Oct 20 '17

Right, that would be the steemit.com website, which is owned/operated by Steemit, Inc". But "STEEM" is not a website, but more like the backbone for websites like Steemit.com and busy.org, etc. It's the "paper the story is printed on, but not the story itself", so to speak.

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@pjcswart · Oct 21 '17

Cool what are the other apps?

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@winstonwolfe · Oct 21 '17 (edited)

Aside from steemit.com, there's also [beta.chainbb.com](http://beta.chainbb.com), [busy.org](http://busy.org), and then there are actual apps for iOS & Android, such as [Steepshot](https://steepshot.io/) and [eSteem](https://esteem.ws/). 
These are all different ways of interacting with the underlying Steem blockchain.

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