Double posting: Whaleshares and STEEM at once!!

in #steem6 years ago

Today I found this nice post on Steem about @steem2wls which is a service that allows us to crosspost on Steem AND Whaleshares in one go.

Even the logo is well thought out

Now if this was the only possibility available I would be sceptical and might not use the service

But it is not,

The service allows for the writer to exclude posts with certain tags or by adding the code shown below

Screenshot 2018-11-30 at 21.48.41.png

And this is really a nifty feature. I do not mind most of my posts being crossposted on both platforms but I do not want all of them to go on both
So to have the opportunity to change what I want to go where is pretty cool.
I have been having a bit of an issue with Whaleshares posting my pictures (cannot seem to get a profile pic up either, it does not accept mine) so I am really curious to see what will happen with this post and the pictures used in it.

Another cool thing is that they are running this in beta and as such the service is for free for the first 3 months and after that they are going to charge 1 sbd per month or 10 sbd a year. This really seems like a reasonable and fair price especially since the service will be expanded and the options for crossposting will be refined.

The biggest downside for the moment for me is that even though you can connect to the service on the steem side with steemconnect it is not possible to do so and you have to hand out your posting key.

That is also the only reason why I have actually chosen to try this out. If it would have asked for the active key there would have been no takers for this at all but in this case I guess its worth a try.

Worst thing that can happen is that if your posting key on whaleshares gets stolen, the thief can write in your name and vote in your name but do nothing with the coins themselves.

I would advise you to go and have a look

https://steem2wls.rocks/faq

then you can check it out for yourselves.

It would also be cool if some of the more "hacker" inclined among you would go and see if they can crack that site?
I will go ahead and test it just the same...

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Here is my question:

What do you as steemians and whaleshare users (still havent figured out the group name for users of whaleshares) think of a service like this??

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Ive been using masdacs.io for this for months. Also allows you to post on Golos and Medium WS and Steem at the same time... Know that one already?

@karinxxl With masdacs, you need to go to masdacs.io and write your post there. With steem2wls, you can use Steemit/Steempeak/Busy/eSteem/Steempress/... and cross-posting is done automatically in the background, much more convenient and suitable for posts created by dApps like DTube or DSound as well that have more than just text.
We might add Golos in the future if there is demand.

oeeeee that is a chique function guys! Nice work than on that

(golos is slowly dying..i wouldnt worry too much on that)

Thanks :) We don't want to support just any Steem-based chain so we currently have no plans to integrate golos anyway, but masdacs has it so if there was demand and we received a lot of requests we would think about it

Thanks for sharing! The reason why we require the Whaleshares posting key is that there is no token-based authentication service such as Steemconnect for Whaleshares yet, so it is the only way. We have implemented a check so that users can only store posting keys with us and not active/owner/memo keys. Security-wise, we store the posting keys like Steem dApps store Steemconnect tokens. Utopian got hacked already, so this is not impossible, but unlikely if the hack does not come from an insider like on Utopian presumably. We are confident in our security measures, but we would love to see a "hacker" try as you suggest :D
If we ever got hacked, users would have to change their keys instead of revoking their Steemconnect tokens.

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