Flourishing Steem - ELI5
A long time ago, before the SteemFest in Amsterdam, I wrote the post Emerging Steem(it) - What does it look like? ELI5
It was meant to provide a visual representation of what is going on within the Steem realm in a way that can be easily understood and visually pleasing to those who are not keen on browsing through the source code in the GitHub repositories.
If you are a casual user that just blogs on Steemit, you may easily miss the big picture of what Steem actually is.
Now, almost two years later, it is time to give you an update:
gource.Audio track: Instinct - Royalty Free Music from Bensound.
The Taiko Drum is a Japanese percussion instrument featuring this track.
What projects are featured in this visualization?
Of course Steem itself; the software that runs the Steem blockchain, then the Condenser that powers up the Steemit.com site, ImageHoster, a software that allows steemit.com (and other sites that choose to use it) to provide seamless image uploading without leaving post editor.
The Steemit.com site and many other web-based projects are powered by steem-js, the official JavaScript library for the Steem blockchain.
Another interesting project is jussi, appreciated by everyone who provides large-scale Steem-based services; jussi caches and routes API requests to steem nodes and/or microservices.
Regardless of the scale, if a service provider wants to enable interaction with Steem, there’s SteemConnect, which solves the token-based authentication hassle for various Steem services.
Those are the projects that are already up and running, and you might be familiar with them and use them on a daily basis (even without being aware of that).
But there are also such projects as Hivemind, which will be available soon and will power up the platform.
And all those project mentioned above are only the Steemit Inc. part.
Steem is bigger than that.
Take a look at @noisy's SteemProjects. There are over 440 projects listed there. This visualization shows only 15% of them, a small sample of what is happening on the Steem platform.
It DOES NOT include such awesome projects as: SteemMonsters (by @aggroed and @yabapmatt), D.Sound (by @prc), DTube (by @heimindanger), SteemPeak (by @asgarth, @dmytrokorol and @jarvie), and many, many, more.
So when you are talking about Steem during the
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The Steem ecosystem is growing by the day. It's a great place for people to try creative ideas. Just keep them coming. I do have concerns that the 'brand' gets a little lost. It's not obvious when you go to some of the sites that Steem is behind the scenes. I think we need a 'Powered by Steem' badge on all of them.
Or a “Powered Up By STEEM” badge.
I think this would be valuable. I had no idea why some people were posting things to dTube until I learned that it was a project run along Steemit.
First of all receive a cordial greeting, sorry if my question doesn't come up but I need help from someone with knowledge and you are number 1 on the witness list. I recently decided to create delegation accounts for my blood brothers. I didn't have much experience with that so when I created the first account I didn't copy the password. I took the delegation off the account but it's been more than 16 days and the delegation is not coming back to me. How can I get my SPs back? I would really appreciate any help that you or anyone else can please give me in this regard as I have not found this information anywhere.
Hello.
Sure, no problem.
There's a difference between delegating SP to someone and creating account with delegation. In the second case, you have to wait 30 days for delegation to return.
Thank you for your reply. I was worried, I hadn't found that explanation anywhere no matter how hard I looked!
How cool's that! Very creative, I like it.
I missed your first video but watched it now. Funny how some users bounce around in the very beginning - as if they had to go find their niche.
I think that may even be a key driver to success on Steem, whether you act as an individual or represent a project/team: it's all about finding your tribe and then.... grow.
Again, thanks for the insight into your creative mind! :-)
Resteemed
Awesome visualization! Take a look at relations between top 100 communities, their sizes and most active users engagement via https://steemverse.com/
Comparable analysis point of view.
Excellent visual representation of the steem development over time @gtg love the choice of graphics ✌
This type of article is very important, because for those of us who are just beginning, we can nourish ourselves and inform ourselves of this fabulous network
This is such an awesome visual representation of the blockchain! I have always envisioned it as its own growing ecosystem becoming larger and more interconnected which is exactly what we are seeing here. I was surprised to see how much had already been in place by the time I joined at the beginning of this year. I also definitely have felt the expansion seen this year and cannot even imagine how this will look in the next year with the new projects and changes coming, especially the development and launch of Smart Media Tokens (SMTs).
I always loved those visual representation. :-)
I have an idea for the next one already, I hope that it will take me less time to produce it than this one. :-)
After signing up here in January of 2018 I remained a casual blogger until March. after that I realized something very crucial for my growth here.
As the prices of steem dropped the STU value of each post dropped as well, but on the other hand the the number of Steem tokens that I was earning per week were growing. Now I blog on Steem full time and try accumulate more and more SP. I know what's coming next year and I also understand that the greater the stake in this system I have, the better its going to be.
In this race to earn more SP I was starting to forget the community until this last June, when I met some truly great people on the Steemit platform and since then I have been a fan of the community here......