RE: Vlog 202: The STEEM blockchain is a success when Steemit.com is dwarfed by other projects on the STEEM blockchain.
One concern I have with all these other platforms popping up, is that they seem to flood Steemit with content which can hardly be compared to the well written articles we find here. Take Steepshot, for example. It's an Instagram-like platform where you can share photos and get some revenue for it. That's great! But at the same time, when I browse Steemit, I'm mainly looking for articles, and stumbling upon images from Steepshot is basically like stumbling upon a Steemit article with no text, so while it would make sense for me to upvote picture content while browsing Steepshot, I am hesitant to to upvote Image-only posts on Steemit, even if the action and rewards are basically the same. Do you know what I mean? At the same time, I'm not sure if I would have it any other way. I think it's kind of cool that Steemit shows anything connected to STEEM.
I realize that writing all of this would be kind of pointless without a conclusion, so what I would like, is an option on Steemit to only show content created on Steemit (or busy.org).
Also, I wish D.Tube had an option to play videos on Steemit, rather than having to navigate to d.tube.
I disagree slightly.
Steemit, in my eyes, is supposed to be more than just a mere blogging site; it's supposed to be a social media and a platform for content creators of all types to post their work.
Social media nowadays is more about photos than blogs and articles anyway.
Alienating photographers would mean alienating a huge majority of social media users, and I don't feel that's a very good gameplan for Steemit's long-term future.
We need to remember than a lot of people enjoy photos more than articles. People are different and value is subjective.
Photos are indeed a huge part of social media, and I'll admit that even I sometimes like browsing pictures better than reading long pieces. I'm very inclined to using STEEM-based social medias, but I am hesitant, since I know everything I post will be published on my Steemit wall. Also, when I browse D.Tube and subscribe to someone, I want to subscribe to their videos and not necessarily all of their family photos.
While Steemit is a great way to explore anything on the STEEM blockchain and in that way serves as a full social media, rather than just a blogging platform, Porter's generic strategies teaches us that prioritizing everything is always outperformed by focusing on one thing, simply because it will not be best at anything.
I kind of see Steemit adapting a lifecycle similar to Facebook, where users end up posting their photos on Instagram rather than on Facebook and their videos on YouTube rather than on Facebook. Eventually, articles and blogs might be outsourced to separate STEEM-based apps, and in the end Steemit will just be a summary of everything every user has produced. Note that I don't necessarily see this as a bad scenario, though.
Maybe it will even strengthen Steemit as a social media. After all, those you want to follow on every platform are those you know and like to engage with.
Fun fact: I once had a plan to create a social media webpage which linked all social medias belonging to a single user together into one giant melting pot of a feed;)
Nice wikipedia reference.
Enjoyed reading yr opinion .
I do hope the images posted (here ) are required t/b a certain quality - it's hard on the eyes, some of the photos are a bit unclear/fuzzy. (am speaking here about blog posts on steemit that I've seen).
I wonder, if articles and blogs do get outsourced to separate #STEEM-based apps... will a certain RESOLUTION be mandated?
Thanks, I was pretty satisfied with the reference myself;)
I think in theory anyone can make Steem-based applications, so anyone with the skill, time and motivation could make a copy of steemit and just not show posts tagged with dtube, dmania, steepshot... Or maybe there could just be a menu where you could choose which platforms to filter out. I would love to try something like this myself in the not so distant future, once I learn more about the STEEM infrastructure.
I think Steemit should create separate website for blogging based on Medium.
Sounds like a cool project for 2018!
Yes, it would be a revolution is the blogging scene. I wrote an article about it.
You make some good points here. Appics will be a much better alternative to Steepshot in my opinion because we really need to separate the instagram type content from the blogs or the whole thing becomes a mess. Hopefully there will be more and more SMTs which will help to branch out the type of content we can have on the blockchain without getting in each others way
Appics seems intriguing!