Trying out Steemit. Mainly because @steevc kept droning on about it.
First impressions
- I like the Home/Hot/Trending/New tabs as a means of discovery.
- I like tags for the same reason.
- I am less sure about $0.31 attached to every post and comment.
- This feeling of unease was increased by this popular post by a Steemit founder identifying what appeared to be attempts to game the system (https://steemit.com/steemit/@dantheman/why-i-flag-ozchartart). Long, deep sigh. Why do people have to be so flipping greedy ?
- I used to know Markdown pretty well but I ditched it in favour of Emacs and Orgmode. Oh well. Better than the alternatives.
- Love the live post preview and GitHub Markdown support which is really helpful.
- Not sure many of my friends are here but that may well be a good thing.
- Not sure there are many UK football fans here. Maybe that could be the niche that makes me a fortune.
I've used many of the social networks (including all the unpopular, niche ones) most of them in fact except Twitter and Facebook. My favourite, without question, was identi.ca which I liken to a chat with your mates in a pub and a 'Like' was a knowing nod across the room. It wasn't worth $0.02, it was worth much more than that. I made some great friends there and even produced a short-lived podcast with a couple of them.
Currently, my only presence is on G+ but my stream seems be getting increasingly sluggish and I fear that in the fullness of time, it will go the same way as Buzz, Wave, Reader and most of their 25% projects.
Right. I've made 12 cents. I'd like to cash out and close my account now please. [ Joke BTW ]
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Got a bit more now :) There's no minimum to cash out, but half of what you get goes to Steem Power and you have to 'power down' to Steem over 13 weeks. It used to be 2 years as a deterrent to people just cashing out
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Welcome to steemit. Your feelings are perfectly normal and with time you would find your footing. An Arsenal fan here so yeah there's at least one U.K. Football fan
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Welcome to steemit @andyc. you'll thank @steevc later.
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Just removed my own automatic vote for my first post as it feels dirty and I'm sure there are more deserving causes out there.
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Welcome to the Dark Side (see @lordvader for details). I do worry G+ will go. It never seemed to gain the traction it deserved. Hope you find something of interest on here
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Welcome to Steemit! :))
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