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RE: [dtube] Is Steemit Just for Popular Content Creators?
I often hear people complain about whales ignoring them them but the reason they are not earning much is not because of whales not upvoting them but because steem user base is still tiny. If steem had the same amount of users as youtube people wouldn't care about whales because they wouldn't be so reliant on them to earn anything.
Currently a post that earned $10 was most likely upvoted by 1 whale but in the future its going to be 1000 likes worth 1 cent each that going to bring a post up to $10.
We need more people on here, that's it.
That's a fair point. My big complaint/my big reason for not creating more content is because one can only earn for 7 days (so I'll just grow my own website).
Currently success does depend on gaining the upvotership of whales (individuals or groups). Which I don't love. But 1,000 upvotes at a penny each, now that's a different story.
You're assuming that with 1000x the user base, your content is going to even be seen. That's the major complaint people have today ALREADY with recognition. Just look at trending for example. It's the same 5 people every day. Most people don't go "searching" for content, and endlessly scrolling for hours. If they did, it wouldn't already be a problem for minnows to grow.
Getting your post higher isn't dependent on user votes, it's dependent on $ amount.
@imlikett
You are right, there should be a better less "sponsored" index somewhere, I am not really interested in the 10 most popular bloggers and their articles, I want to find more pristine content... Also I am a bit uncomfortable with the google search of the site, there should be a "steemit" search... Maybe I missed something...I am quite new still...
Indeed, this is the biggest feature missing at the moment. Only the trending/new/hot tab is too limiting to find the content you want.
For example I follow the tag diving but there is no easy way to see the most popular 'diving' post for the last x months.
@pieter87
I found some really nice diving/uw-photo material here, like people who are making super high quality underwater film/documentary content, and such.
Some how feels like all these high-quality semi-popular blogpost are going to get buried... They should have like a quality index, a index of articles that are quality and actually have a higher value then just "popularity" or "over-night-sensation-fame"...
Check out the documentary here:
@bluebottlefilms/010-the-making-of-our-ocean-film-the-map-to-paradise
Yeah, I hate it when sites integrate google search. It makes it so unpleasant, as you now don't have the easy to view user layout, and instead, just a wall of text and links.
@imlikett
Yeah they should remove the google search, and create their own search function, I hope the google-search is just a beta-thing...
Hivemind will solve this issue https://github.com/steemit/hivemind
It will allow steemit to have sub-steemit similar to sub-reddit, you will have as many trending page as there will be communities
I think you're right, it's a small platform and the more people who join the potential for more votes will surface.
I do what I can to promote Steemit and to encourage others to continue even when they're not generating top pay because I believe in the value of alternative social media networking sites that are known for being against censorship and the added incentive of rewards from writing and content.
It's a wonderful platform to start getting your feet wet with cryptocurrencies, also. I know this is how I begun really venturing into the crypto world and I have learned tons of information that I most likely would not have become aware of.
Great said @luna33.
The user base is still small here.
And with time people will see how amazing this thing truly is.
agree @luna33 more people joins brings more power, which ultimately shoots up the reward result