I have only been on here for a couple of weeks - to see what the Steemit experiment will lead to. In that time I have tried to post two times a day, mostly artworks that I already published for free on another decentralised social media, so most of my initial time here has been used to understanding the place. Curie I think has evolved in the same timeframe as I have been here, and that might make my perspective a little blurred. Especially because after Curie started I began to get some valuable upvotes - from Curie.

When viewed from a human angle there is nothing natural about institutions, because it takes an act of will to create them, and humans prefer to believe that the natural is something happening outside us, outside our society, and outside our control. None the less I see this bureaucratic tendency to be something very human (I try to avoid the term natural), and it is fascinating to be able to see it develop before before your very eyes.

Anarchists like myself tend to look down on such organisations, but it is both naive and wrong to scorn upon such enterprises. Steemit needs Curie like it needs some policing to root out plagiarist, spammers and the like. The most important things with initiatives like this is to create a codex of openness, incorruptibility and fairness, and in that I believe Curie have been going in a good direction (as far as I have been able to comprehend the project altogether).