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RE: What do you want from Steem? I'll build it — but I need your suggestions
I'm not sure how it can be done, but I think it would be great if there is a way to communicate privately via direct messages or private comments. As far as I can tell, any proper SNS provides these features.
It's unfortunate that STEEM is losing its SNS appeal. People - even including witnesses - seem to use other services like Discord or Telegram instead of Steemit. Hopefully it will change by your effort. Thanks!
Thanks!
My understanding is that the Blockchain was designed to NOT be private. Blockchain information is stored in such a way that EVERYTHING ever written is stored openly, for everyone to view. That is the beauty and the curse of Blockchain.
If we use the steem Blockchain to send messages, then they will always be readily available for everyone to see.
We already have encrypted transfer memos, so I think there may be a room for consideration.
You are completely correct. I forgot about them 👍
Hello, nice that you got in touch here. In principle, it would certainly be possible to implement something like that: a messaging system, similar to Facebook, to exchange private messages with each other. However, if you want to make it blockchain-based, that is already a much bigger programming task. It also always assumes, of course, that the other person actually reads these messages later. A small technical detail that people like to overlook, because apparently messages are understood simply by existing.
On my new social media platform https://welako.app/, there is already a messaging system. However, since it is not blockchain-based, it requires the respective people to be registered on my platform. But they can do that with their existing Steem account. You can then see there whether someone is registered, and you could also send that person a private message.
I will think about how something like this could perhaps be integrated into the Steemit frontend in a simple way. But even if I create a test environment here, the messages would only be sent within that test environment. Whether something like that will ever be included in the official frontend, I obviously cannot say.
Unfortunately, none of this is quite that simple, even though it would technically be possible in principle. In the end, it is more about whether a decision is made to integrate such a feature into the official version.
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I think there might be a way to use memo keys with some kind of argreed upon standardized procedure, so that any front-end can employ the feature. But I didn't dig deeper, so it's just an idea.