Steemit will gather dust at some point in the future. Like MySpace there will be some users left who are keeping the connection with their old-skool communities. But many of us will move to other dApps. As a photographer Steemit doesn't work for me, and Steepshot is okay, but a really great photo dApp will be developed. As a writer Steemit is okay, but Steempeak is way more awesome, but what about a real essay platform that lets you create magazine style presentations? Where you can drop blocks in a wysiwyg editor that either display text or images?
All those dApps will attract users and the whole Steemit vibe of 'we only appreciate high-quality long form content' will be forgotten, since there will be whales on 'image only' dApps and maybe even on Pinterest dApps. It will make no sense to downvote content that is being rewarded in other dApps and only coincidentally showing on Steemit.
Anyway, just some thoughts that wandered through my mind after reading your post.
(I'm still not sure what Steemit is :P)
Excellent observations. I hope my two next (not Steemhunt) posts will provide your “thoughts” further ammunition.
I think it is a great evolution btw. And exactly confirms what I said in one of my earliest comments. But that’s another post again.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated @soyrosa.
Thanks for your reply,
I agree, it's a great revolution, and I hope people start to see that. Every individual having 'success' on this blockchain is another supporter and ambassador for all of us. Every dApp built on the blockchain can extrapolate that effect. I'm excited for the future and believe with time a lot of negativity (and 'meta writing' ;-)) will vanish.
Looking forward to my ammunition ;-)
Meta echo cambers, one of my favorite terms.Oh wait... you didn’t actually say that. :|
:') LOL, I'm not a native speaker, so I love the input and might use it from now on when writing about this topic :D
FIrst thing to do is to write off-Steem about Steem.
I’ve actually had that plan for a while. But there wasn’t much happening then. Now it seems we may reach volume level to have sufficient for at least weekly content, content geared towards tech news readers rather than just another internal kitchen.
This post is actually a rewrite for that audience. The original post is linked in the article too.