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· @noisy ·
yeah.. of course I can go and I can use Medium, but as a STEEM holder I would prefer to use any service build on top of steem.

> Steem/it is fundamentally a decentralized blockchain project/product/platform 

Is it? Steemit cannot exist as decentralized platform. Steemit belongs to a company, which has own database (with users emails/links to facebook accounts/phone numbers/etc).

> That has both advantages and disadvantages

Every businessman know that we should focus on advantages which this gives us, and try to avoid limitation.

# I do not see any reason why Steemit could not be better than Medium 

I believe, that as times goes, technology will allow to do even more in decentralize way. Maybe at some point even DNSes will be totally decentralized. But this not mean, that we have to wait for that moment. 

> I don't know where the developers of steemit.com plan to take things, nor how nor when

**And this is a problem.** We as a shareholders of Steem, we should be aware what is a **vision for Steemit**, which is right now biggest application build on top of Steem blockchain.
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@personz ·
Just to butt in here, pessimistic as it may sound, I think the vision for Steemit (the centralized service, not the blockchain - I believe the distinction is clear to you all) is **advertising**. From the [FAQ](https://steemit.com/faq.html) section "How does Steemit, Inc. earn money?":
> Over time, Steemit will allow advertisers and bloggers to promote content by buying and burning Steem. Steemit can benefit from sales of Steem to advertisers in the cryptocurrency markets or offer advanced services to these advertisers and bloggers.

Also read the [Privacy Policy](https://steemit.com/privacy.html) in detail if you haven't already. It's pretty standard stuff, but in the context of this platform that is disappointing.
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@noisy ·
in my opinion, after last hardfork, pressure for adding to STEEM additional source of revenue is not so strong anymore. If steemit would go into direction of substeems, then maybe promoting post would be even more profitable.
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@stellabelle ·
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# "I do not see any reason why Steemit could not be better than Medium"
I have been thinking and saying this from the beginning..........
👍  , ,
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@full-steem-ahead · (edited)
I liked a lot of what I read in this article, and much of the comment I read by noisy. I'm replying to you @stellabelle b/c of the endorsement of the Medium platform as being a "better" alternative to Steemit. I know nothing about Medium, nor do I rank my blogging anywhere near yours or many others I enjoy. 

What puzzles me tho is what your motivation for blogging is. If it were making $ Steemit seems like the obvious winner as I see no other contenders that come close to the monetary rewards you get here. If it's about popularity the opposite is true. If it's about reaching an audience of truth seekers and people of above average intelligence you wish to connect with to raise their awareness and provide information to help them live a better life (i.e. more meaning, more authentic, less selfish, more beneficial for the future of humanity), then Steemit should be high on the list, tho perhaps not at the top.

The choice of where you choose to spend your time probably says more about you than the platform. I mean no offense, but these are my thoughts. I'm hoping we can discuss this in more depth at the [upcoming meetup](https://steemit.com/steem/@giftedgaia/the-ozarks-area-steemian-meetup-is-set).
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@stellabelle · (edited)
I am frustrated by the low quality of writing on Steemit. However, I will say that it has improved greatly in recent months. I think I expected too much too fast. I am looking for a solution to my "creative jobs problem". This means I am looking for a way to earn income by writing, creating art and videos and doing social media. I invited a lot of Medium writers here in the beginning. I also know some professional writers, who write for the New York Times, etc. The general consensus among professional writers is that Steemit is a scammy, casino-like, sleazy place where   low quality schemes like steemsports, etc. make a lot of money. All the writers I got in here have left, saying they won't bother with such a low-quality place. The word 'scam' was used many times to describe Steemit. This reputation was caused by the huge payouts that I benefitted from in the beginning. Also, the unfair rewards which are based on whale approval is hugely distasteful to most writers i know.

So, I am here because Steemit solves my problems better than any other platform. I'm also still here because I find that I learn more about technology in Steemit than on other platforms. I am a big reader, so I still spend quite a lot of time on Medium because frankly, the quality is a lot better than here. But I'm optimistic that Steemit will continue to evolve. I have a more realistic outlook here and I realize it will never be Medium, because the people here are different and more experimental (which I think is good). Steemit is like a blogging petri dish, whereas Medium IS the blogging platform of recent times.
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@stellabelle ·
there is every type of writer on Medium. There's an entire category dedicated to decentralization that I follow. Also, I am a contributing writer to many publications like Hacker Noon. Here's a sample of my article in that publication: https://hackernoon.com/scarjo-robot-forces-us-to-consider-robot-replica-issues-ae447fc65fb9#.d8h3h9ysv
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@stellabelle · (edited)
I tend to notice that crypto people are a bit more suspicious than other kinds of people. I also notice that they don't tend to investigate platforms like Medium because they are full of bias. For example, if you search Medium for the word, 'bitcoin' you get a huge amount of results:
https://medium.com/search/publications?q=bitcoin

Medium is still sort of new, so people don't understand how it works.  It has been very successful in creating a huge amount of niche audiences. People on the platform still engage in wars, but it's so successful with creating niches, that people tend to focus on their areas of interest. I met a ton of intelligent and amazing people on there. I sort of view it as a learning platform more than anything.

A lot of big blogs have moved to Medium. Check out the Trezor blog which is hosted on Medium now:
https://blog.trezor.io/
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