RE: STEEM, The People's Blockchain.
A good post. But posting this here, albeit necessary as not everyone knows all this here, is preaching to the choir. What everyone needs to do is to go out to mainstream platforms and set the record straight if they encounter blatantly false information about Steem. Much of what little information there is out there on Steem - even in the wider cryptocommunity - tends to be, in @theycallmedan's words, dog shit. It is begging to be corrected. There are tens of thousands of us. That's enough to have an impact in the long run.
I've been told that marketing Steem to the masses is unnecessary as Steem is infrastucture only and of interest to developers at best. I disagree to the extent that Steem has a bad and mostly undeserved image problem among people in the crypto space, too. So, wherever Steem and Steem apps are talked about, please do get yourself up to speed about the basics, if need be, and the most important developments, and simply correct any false information you see spread out there. If everyone does that for a year, our chain and the STEEM price should be in a lot better shape than it is now.
100% agree with you on this. I actually wrote this to share on twitter and try to get more people interested in what is going on. I was hoping that it would get a few shares among the crypto community and get people asking the questions at least.
I have only recently start using mainstream social media again with the sole aim of getting steem more widely known. I know the reason it has a bad name from when it was created but that was a long time ago and we have moved on from there. Every day those original accounts become less and less relevant to what we do here and the apps are a big part of that. They are changing the distribution of steem which can only be good in the long run.
If we all get involved we can get the right message out there and try to correct all of that false info being spread around. As you said we have thousands of people active every day and that can create huge waves.
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Your point about the bad name of Steem originating from how it was created is a good one. We have come a long way, indeed. Rather than spend a lot of time on certain mainstream social media sites, I'd perhaps prefer googling up Steem and making surgical strikes, cutting the wings off of false pieces of information appearing in conversations.
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That's an interesting approach actually. Especially if you were targeting crypto hotspots. Places that are influential towards the crypto world and the people involved. If you had a dedicated group of people operating in influential areas you could stop a lot of the false info before it gets going.
And while I've heard of hear of plenty people promoting the blockchain I haven't seen many talking about defending it in the way you have been.
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