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RE: Important Changes to Steemit.com and Wallet

in #steem • 6 years ago

Hey, @sn0n.

I'm in agreement with the ideals part. I don't know what the answer is myself, but there are folks here who are all for the ads, so maybe there will be some helpful return from it. As for myself, I'm not quitting Steemit, but I am using the Brave browser until they decide where they're going with the ads. One of the reasons why I came to like STEEM is because ads didn't seem to be apart of the experience, but there's still choices on how to access the STEEM social media platform, so while that is still the case, life goes on. :)

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         6 years ago 

        Ads shouldn't necessarily be part of the crypto or blockchain experience imo... but steemit isn't steem, it's a platform on top of steem, so I can see how they might have a splinter group in marketing saying "we need ads",... To each their own, as long as ads don't bother me, as they are currently not on mobile as far as I can see, it's a non-issue.
        I do understand having to diversify their income, but I'd rather see collaboration with other blockchains for deeper integrations, instead of a focus on fiat. I haven't looked into steemincs finances, but I'm sure there is a lot of room for infrastructure improvements, outside of the blockchain itself, on the http and physical world side of things...

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               6 years ago 

              It seems like they're main focuses have been reducing costs (layoffs, reworking of code, adding things like RockDB and MIRA), and finding something to generate income, and have at least begun with the ads idea.

              It's true, Steemit is not STEEM, but I'm in full agreement that it does go against the grain. Whether it's actually fiat money being earned or not (which undoubtedly a good portion must be), it just seems part of the old system of earning that the blockchain and the new attention economy is supposed to get away from.

              re: ads not on mobile

              Well that's something. On the website, on your personal feed, it will show banner ads at the top, one on the left and a smaller one on the right, and then there are more ads in the feed. If you go to your blog, there will actually be a banner ad on top and others where your blog posts are.

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                     6 years ago 

                    Yea, this is the current mobile experience..
                    Screenshot_20190402-164141.png
                    And with desktop mode enabled, you'll see the ads like this..
                    Screenshot_20190402-164319.png

                    Ads not being present on mobile is nice. As for the desktop, there are far better options then steemit,... Including desktop applications. Which steemit inc should be promoting, so they can offload some of their server side work to other nodes. Which will enable them to start the cleanup process from AWS and maybe towards a better community hosted ipfs or whatever system. The more steemit promotes steem and it's plethora of dapps, the more it will benefit as a whole the steem ecosystem. Collaborative measures. I mean, they are already running public API nodes, so they are enabling them.. may as well help them run full nodes also.

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                           6 years ago 

                          It's a business it needs to generate income to cover costs and to hopefully also increase the value of the steem coin. Otherwise Steemit is just a major sink hole of money flowing out of steem. I fully support ads as long as they are not super targeted and taking peoples information.

                          Why are there so many content creators on Youtube? Because they get paid big bucks from ads on their videos.

                          I have a feeling 95% of people would rather watch an ad to support a content creator then fork up $2 of their own money.

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