Quote from: americanpegasus on May 22, 2016, 11:32:56 PM

Quote from: numismatist on May 22, 2016, 04:10:59 PM

Quote from: americanpegasus on May 22, 2016, 05:11:18 AM

So I just became aware of this concept of token-powered decentralized social networks tonight and am doing some research. I see two main contenders: Synereo and Steem. When all factors are considered: fairness to content creators, ease of use for lurkers, fairness of mining... which one do you think will win the impending war of decentralized social media?

Who will win? Your landlord smooth, since we can see you have to pay him all your Steem since monthes
https://steemit.com/@americanpegasus/transfers

But regarding the "ease of use for lurkers" I have to confirm: Yes, ineed. And very entertaining, too.

I haven't even had control of that account. I assume if it's been mining those profits don't belong to me. I'm just happy he'll turn the name over to me.

Exactly. When Steem first started none of us really know what we were doing. One of the few things we figured out is that you needed to mine with multiple accounts, and possibly using all different accounts on different computers. So I figured I would mine a bunch of well known forum names, etc. to protect them from squatters and then turn them over to the original owners. The coins I mined with them I transferred to my main account.

@ap, I contacted you about access to the account, let me know if not received.

@jwinterm, I agree with you to a large extent. It is a crowded space and all new platforms, ventures, etc. are risky and usually fail. My main quibble would be that there does seem to be a fair amount of churn, and even for reasons that are well addressed by a blockchain platform. Specifically, you mentioned voat, which I don't know a lot about but according to wikipedia, acquired a lot of users who left reddit in response to censorship and policy changes. Voat itself has faced outside pressure in the form of its Paypal being closed and being kicked off hosting. It is possible that users may churn between various platforms as they are pressured to adopt policies the users don't like, and then the users end up on a blockchain which is more resistant to such pressure. Or this may not happen, and it even if it does, it might be neither Steem nor Synereo that ends up benefiting. I'd also quibble that while mining, vests, etc. is interesting to those of us in the crypto space, it will be ignored and largely invisible to end users who will just see growing power (like karma) and rewards denominated in dollars.

@DecentralizeEconomics, I watched the Synereo youtube videos and I saw a very theoretical approach and major issues with lack of a core concern about time to market. I don't know what all the work on Ethereum/Casper has to do with Synereo at all or helping users in the social media space, other than Greg's interest in both. To me the project looks in danger of being unfocused on delivery and derailed into a vehicle to support Greg's math habit.