Distributing the economics of the attention economy through communities

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While I was reading through @steemitblog I refreshed the page and it appears that communities are rolling out as we speak. Well, I guess Justin Sun was at least correct about the update coming this week. It is good to get something right in your first week as the owner of a brand new 70 million Steem.

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Are they glasses clinking or eyes crying in the graphic?

I am really looking forward to the community roll-out, as I have been for almost exactly 3 years now....

Don't get me wrong, I think that at inception communities are going to be quite clumsy, but I believe that in time they will come together and evolve into a dynamic space for content creator and consumer alike. One of the major value propositions of Steem is ownership, and while the token is one part of the equation, communities bring in the ownership of experience side, and I believe that there is a great deal of value in this.

What Steem is currently doing is redefining the way the internet works and while others are focusing on the "attention" component of the attention economy, Steem is looking at heavily affecting the "economy" component.

The world is rapidly changing and many factors are coming to a head, with global economic frailty, social challenges, polarization of communities, censorship of contributors, technological replacement of employment, artificial intelligence, 5G, mobile devices and wearables, social platforms, entertainment focus and a host of other areas converging. As I see it, the time for blockchain and socially driven earnings through consumption is on us, and we are only just beginning the journey.

The amount of interest in what we are doing here and the possibility of it to expand our individual daily experiences at a global is going to ramp up rapidly. While "rapidly" might not be fast enough for many of the impatient early adopters, we are at the start of the next instance of technological revolution in industry, and it is going to impact all facets of our daily lives.

Once upon a time, people said the internet wouldn't last and no one would carry a phone around in their pocket. What they didn't see is that those two very things would combine to change the way we function and interact in life. They might have been right though, no one carries a phone around these days - they have a camera, computer, gaming console, social platform and many other things - and it just happens to have a phone app included. Not that anyone calls anymore.

As said, the first instances of communities are going to be a bit clunky, but in time the edges will be knocked away and more developers will create a widening range of use cases that can attract, engage and empower users from all walks of life in many ways. Add the SMT layer on top and the possibility for innovation and expansion are endless. I know there is a lot happening on Steem right now that creates a lot of uncertainty and potentially stress, but take some wins.

Steem is changing the economy of attention in the attention economy.

Taraz
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It's been a long time comin.' I was always uncertain what you meant when you referenced this communities feature on Steemit, but I can admit, I was excited. I still don't think my friends, myself included, I'm looking at @juicyfruit and @oblomoffjr @varshh @mizzenandapen - I could go on, none of us really understand what a site where your sharing can be earning does for people interested in sharing, earning, and everything else under the sun. I will persist while making waves to hopefully splash their faces and refresh them of their disbelief and stupor - but I think it will only make a difference, when I make a difference with it. For that, I may have to work even harder.

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It is hard to envisage where all of this is going, but I think that if we keep on the "many path" approach, we are going to hit a few dead ends, but a great many hidden treasures :)

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He took over STEEMIT, but is it actually verified that he took/got the whole stake?

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At least the three main accounts is steemit, steemit2 and misterdelegation

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they are the main dev team and yet they dropped down significantly, maybe it was just time for a change in leadership and risk assessment

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perhaps, but it opens new uncertainties and people tend to panic.

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Not that anyone calls anymore.

My daughter did once complain to me that her father tried to ring her instead of "texting like a normal person" XD All the cool kids text (on various messaging apps, not just ye olde sms) and video chat these days (remember when it was cool new tech that was also so hideously expensive that you only did it super sparingly and the phones that had the video capability had tiny little screens because who would actually ever bother watching videos on their phones anyway xD).

the first instances of communities are going to be a bit clunky,

steemit was clunky (still is compared to steempeak but much less so compared to itself when I started). It'll be fine XD

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Fathers are dumb creatures, it seems ;D

All new tech is met with resistance and even early adopters fall prey to their initial processes and fear change :)

Who doesn't love a bit of clunk in the trunk?

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Communities don't seems too much different from tags, as far as I can tell. Also, they are very reminiscent of subreddits.

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Yes. But reddit owns subreddits. Ownership matters.

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It is definitely an added value to the people on this platform.

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I think the importance of it will grow over the next few years.

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I was going to shill the fact that I started a the “comics” community but I decided against it because it would be poor form to do that in someone else’s post.

This is a rather interesting development.

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