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The Steemit and Dtbube platform needs some serious work and way more users if they are going to get to the size where they can start partaking in activist activities.

The biggest issue with Steemit and Dtbube is the quality for a lot of the content is subpar. I see people sharing photos with just a title earning money, whilst people putting effort into writing great content make nothing. If Steemit wants to attract quality content, the imbalance needs to be fixed somehow or most people will just give up trying to make it work.

I see Steemit in particular as a platform that solves the problem people have been asking since ad blockers became a thing: how am I going to make money off of producing content? I also see Steemit as a platform that can definitely change the perception of cryptocurrency being used by criminals to launder money or buy drugs.

Besides the imbalance in power on both platforms, there is a discoverbility issue where it's hard to find good content, the categorisation isn't that great and content exploration isn't great either. It's another avenue where both platforms need to be improved.

You could write the best post of your life, about a cause you're passionate about, but if you don't have a following or the power, then it'll be in vain because nobody is going to see it. For any of these platforms to become suitable for activism based content, we need to find a way to make it easier to find, share and reward.

If the "Activists" try to do more then gain Monetarily.

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Without a centralized Authority censoring content, steemit is already light years ahead of any other activist platform in my opinion. At least here, competing ideologies for example left or right don't control the type of content because of ownership or brown bag payments... I love this idea and this video is great, definitely subscribed man, thanks for the contribution!

We are now in a world where computer and high technology is at hand. online world can damage or create desirable changes in our life.

I could count few reasons why steem is the right adress for activists. The most important reason is people in here are eager to read every interesting article and i have experienced myself on few events that they are really generous to donate money or resteem the post. An activism tag could be opened, a discord group shouls work either. I can nor open the video right now, but i would love to join activism movements in here.

I am new here, but it's kind of hard to imagine what it couldn't be used for. For example, I am wondering if I can use to help incentivize my students to read each other's work (peer review) and provide meaningful feedback. That almost feels like activism at this point in my teaching career! But in regard to more conventional activism, I don't see why not.

Awesome
I like this

Steemit is a great plateform for Authors and Curators.

My objective on steemit is to be a better Curator.

This is gonna need a lot of Steem Power.

Kindly support me by Upvote.

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It absolutely can be.  When people come together- in whatever form that takes, there is an exponential growth in the power of numbers.  Steemit has the ability to create communities within communities, and to share knowledge... and that is always the first step to any form of Activism!

Very good

One of the problems with Twitter (aside from myriad of other glaring problems) is how politicized people's timelines have become.  There's too much activism at the expense of anything else.  It's okay to be political, it's okay to have causes you're passionate about, but you need that balance, that diversity.  If we find ourselves too weighted in one area, we all suffer.

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Why yes I believe it can, David.

I like it.

I like it, good video

Yes it could and maybe it should‼️ Only the future will tell 🤞🏾📈🚀♻️

I’m not sure. Essentially it can be controlled by whoever has the most money. I’ve seen a few of the right leaning talking heads migrate across here and, say, they find themselves funded by a Peter Thiel type who wants a certain agenda pushed that is in opposition to a piece of activism that is going on.

If you have enough money and power behind you, you can become invulnerable to flags, ensure your points and like minded points are the ones that are seen, plus ensure dissenting viewpoints are slapped down.

Nothing draws in a good crowd and an upvote than populist talking points that are aimed at diffusing activism and distorting a pool of truth with misinformation. Monetise that and stick it in a moderation free structure and you’ve got a recipie for something nasty.

I’ve already seen a heavily debunked piece on vaccinations on here, yet it’s sitting at a nice healthy income that nothing but uber whale flags can touch. Naturally that income can then be reinvested, bots bought, for the next bout of misinformation. Because big pharma or something.

Moderation goes against what Steemit advertises itself as, a tech driven ideology, but a lack of tools for the community could be what kills it.

absolutely. Especially if you are clever with how you brand it, making sure that you do some footage to document your work and market it as "powered by STEEM" or "enabled by d.tube", etc.

Some work like this has already been done by @surfermarly . You can check out some of her work in her presentation at SteemFest2 last year here:
https://youtu.be/JHHsS2qR8uE?t=859

Maybe someone you can take on your show? ;)

But yes, activists who do great work with STEEM as a platform can expect some rewards, especially if it also helps to promote STEEM in a good way. As Marly argues in her talk: Considering how cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin still have this negative reputation of being a currency for drugs and black markets, why not make STEEM stand out by doing great work with it?

I agree completely.