I hope you keep an eye on the impact of the whales getting out of their cages,...
We won't be able to see it in rewards for a couple weeks, but once they go back to voting their influence, even by proxy, it strangles all who don't toe the party line.
Speech isn't free in a shadow banned environment.
This is actually a really interesting point. It's something I have observed first hand on this platform in regards to voting influence, for both witness votes and content votes: the distribution of influence makes it hard not to toe the party line, as you say.
While we do not and cannot have "prohibition" censorship on this platform, if we descend into a scenario where it becomes hard to have conflicting points of views heard, we are in big trouble.
Welcome to my bubble,....
The very things that make me valuable to the platform are the things they are intentionally not voting.
My alternate viewpoint, and stand alone convictions, rub some folks the wrong way.
I figure the more I rub those folks, the better for the little guys,....but it keeps me off the hot page.
If I am intentionally kept from the voting lists of guilds, etc, I might as well call it being censored, because that is what it is.
If in a backhanded, ephemeral manner.
I'm not sure that I would want most of my posts on the front page, as I am not even near the norm, but to intentionally ignore what I have to say is to suppress my having said it, imo.
@freebornangel keep being u baby thats your value and to diminish it for censorship or voting guilds is premature ... you're thinking big I can almost see it
Thank you for your support!
You are absolutely welcome, no thanks is necessary but it IS appreciated =-) maybe we can discord or steemit.chat soon
Yes, eventually I will get a better connection to web, and then I can be around less intermittently.
I hope you will take time to comment some of my other posts?
@anyx Echo chamber < conflicting points of view < valuable communication (value) wow im stalking an old april fools day joke now this steemit thing is addictive