its an innovative post mam.
thnxxx fr sharing ur views & thoughts with us....☺☺👌👌👌

Decentralisation is key to enhancing the best out of humans in both intellect, socialization and connectivity. 
The world had gone digital and it can only lying be more better with decentralisation, especially, when built around crypto coin blockchains.

amazing post, I like your post, I hope you succeed with your various stories, greetings know from @bangone

>Life is simple, it's just not easy. 

This is one quote that sure has its place in how we are seen by what we do and how we do the the things we do.
Steemit has been a life saving platform for many, myself included but the groove we all once saw, felt and associated with suddenly fizzled out, giving birth to more bots than humans. 
I have read the ONO white paper and still reading and must confess I love that this is one platform that seeks to make it about the people first. 
Nice post with some education. #onobuilders

This is the kind  of post that helps people see where all this is going. Steemit seems a bit chaotic sometimes. And as I have been creating good content, I've seen post that were simply an image get triple digit upvotes. And it seems frustrating sometimes. 

But, as we know there are a lot of people who care about building this community for the benefit of all, it's time to say thank you! So, Thank you SurferMarly!

@surfermarly, I am curious. You knew this platform when it was younger. When it functioned the way it was supposed to. 

Could you provide an anecdote that exemplifies how was steemit back then? How was like to be an steemian then?

Your publication has made me think, when I joined the steemit community, I made several mistakes. But with each post that I read and the people I slowly get to know, they make me see that it is all an experience to belong and participate in Steemit. Thanks for the post. REGARDS

ONO

Oh No!!

Referring to both your post and some of your comments below, I have to say that I've never understood why Ned et al don't prioritize Steemit. It is their flagship product, but they almost seem embarrassed by it, or at best slightly annoyed.

I took a look at Ono whitepaper recently, but wasn't all that impressed. The thing that's special about Steemit is that it is already operational, with lots of people posting. While it isn't easy to interact as a group on here, because there are no groups, I do find little tribes growing in the comments sections of folks who are all following each other. 

Of course, I wasn't here in the early days, so I have nothing to compare it to. I haven't done anything on dlive yet and honestly wouldn't even know how to get started. Does your wallet from Steemit carry over to other steem apps? 

Anyway, as I'm just getting my bearings here, I'm not that happy to hear that old-timers are wanting to leave. I'm still excited about what I've found here. It is much more meaningful conversation than I get to have on say Facebook, or any other social media site. (I just don't look at the Trending page and always search by topic of interest instead.)

I think competition is healthy. This helps to have things moving faster. I am keeping an eye on the future. Let's see how things will be shacked around here :)

you make some very good points but you left out one thing that in mandatory for a decentralized community to exist. 

they need accountability, because in any community system leadership figures will emerge and they need to be held accountable for their activities which could jeopardize the collective

I absolutely love this! It resonates to me so much that you have become my 2nd most favourite person in Steemit! 
@ashleykalila takes 1st place because when I connected with her I felt that she really cared for people and building relationships and supporting people to become better versions of themselves, of being humans in virtual space.

>Builders, leaders, lions or however you want to call them have one fundamental thing in common: they don't put their own interests on top of the agenda. They want to achieve something much bigger than that.

I have so many favorite lines in this post but this resonated so much with me because as being in HR and championing people's rights I often have to go against management if they want to do something that is not right morally or legally. They invoke the management mandate and I go out of my way to fight it.
Thus I am often branded as a troublemaker and one that is an anarchist.
I don't follow rules that morally wrong. I stand by my conviction and my integrity is more important than a paycheck. 
You can always find a job but you can't always be selling your morals.

Thank you for this one Marly!

Hello @surfermarly

One thing that I have come to notice is that the Steemit I am seeing now is different from the Steemit I joined early last year.

Even if the change has no visible indicator to some. One thing that I have noticed is that the level of engagement on Steemit has reduced drastically.

Post comments are not what they used to be before. The Platform is lacking the Spark of the early days.

[In This Post](https://steemit.com/steemit/@ogochukwu/on-humans-and-technology-what-steemit-can-learn-from-the-mistake-of-nokia) I talked about the Mistake Nokia made that saw them get pushed to the sidelines even though they were once a telecom giant.

Even though that the Steem Blockchain is undergoing massive developements with SMT's and Hivemind. Those awesome developements will not have any positive effect if there are no one around to use them.

The focus in the Steem Blockchain has slowly moved from people to the Technology .

> We are now more concerned with building shiny things that will attract the outside world while ignoring those we already have

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Just like @connecteconomy said : people will go where they feel best.

My chat with people about ONO and other Blockchain social Media is that people may finally end up using Steemit as a form of passive Income.

They may just delegate their SP to bots and claim rewards while moving over to a Platform where they can really get the connection they seek with other Humans.

I end with my favourite quote.

> I believe that the Humans of Steem is more valuable than Steem 
____

@ogochukwu

#blockchain-blogger

I agree with the points raised by this post. The choice people make is directly related  to their sense of  value .

You guyz are looking so beautiful & your pictures tell us you are so happy on that time. good to see this dear. keep rocking!

Man needs some entertainment and entertainment really well, my friend I wish you spend the most beautiful times
A beautiful picture of a serious trio really fun

Hey Marly!
Thanks for the info on the EOS social media site...
If you're going to be posting there as well, please keep us informed as I'd like to follow suit 🙂

Please note that I'm not technically gifted, *at all,* and have been posting on Steemit, since I joined in September 2016, only from my iPhone 8 because it's the most powerful piece of technology I own 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for all you do Marly!

*Craiggles* 😀

Soul Delas is the first decentralized girlpower community. (@souldelas)

Thanks for the heads up on this ono concept. It will be really interesting to see how it progresses. It would be great if Steemit or at least one of the Dapps would finally make thing more user friendly for newbies to make on boarding easier. The strength is Steem is the reward concept. The weakness is also the reward concept. Ono looks from my quick perusal to be an advertising revenue sharing reward, like several before (ie Tsu) I hope it doesn’t become a cesspit of referral links and spam, something we have battled with here on Steemit fairly successfuly. 
Only time will tell.

> If you take steemit.com as an example you'll quickly realize that the glorious times of the application belong to the past.

The glorious times of the application belong to the past? There are more users daily and there are new projects here on a daily basis? How could this be past the glorious times?

> The no. 1 social media dApp of the future will surely be ONO @onosocial launched on EOS @eosio.
You are sure because of a Whitepaper? Weren't you the one who always rambled abotu how STEEMIT isn't sticking to the paper? What if ONO doesn't as well.

__Don't get me wrong - I am interested in the things around ONO as well (in the end, any serious competitor can be good for Steem). But saying Steemit is history and ONO the future based on a few lines without an actual product seems a little bit - well, overenthusiastic at least ;)__

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Beautifully and wonderfully stated! <3

Really inspiring, and I think that a decentralized world will help us achieve the integral, caring community so many of us want and need.

Nice post Marly. It is interesting to see your views on the subject and it is great to see you share some insights as well. And I guess this is also the point of decentralization. Sharing infrmation, tips, ideas, being open on different subjects.