RE: Steem - An Honest Look Inside

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Steem - An Honest Look Inside

in steem •  6 years ago 

I dont really feel those emotions because I rarely look outward into the crypto world. Having said that I think that BTC will rise to the point where people will start to throw money in there are again and then down it will come. I am consistent with steem and have never cashed any out. You were there when I started and have always been helpful. That is what steem so great in my opinion. It's the community. It's also the fact that you don't need to learn too much about crypto to participate and earn money. It is just going to take some marketing to get normal people to use the blockchain. Im really a big believer in @share2steem to achieve that goal. Getting 20 instagram influencers to hop on board would be enough to give us the hype we need.

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I'm not sure about share2steem honestly, as I don't want Steem to become a platform people just spam their automatic posts from other platforms. Rather, the incentives on Steem should be that good, so people want to be here and engage on this platform.

I honestly don't see what's wrong with content from other platforms being crossposted on Steem. The more use Steem has the better. Engagement on some Steem app and reposting stuff from other platforms do not contradict each other in any ways. That's totally unnecessarily zero-sum thinking.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing per se, but Steem just being something where your posts are automatically cross-posted without any originality won't be beneficial for the future.

Who says Steem would ever be that?

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It could easily become it when people see Steem as a simple medium of automatic reposting content.

Which people? I really think it escapes a lot of people, particularly those who have been around since 2016 how much Steem has already changed and will continue to change in terms of diversity of content. Steem is already not predominantly a blogging platform. The combined traffic on DrugWars, Nextcolony and Steem Monsters already exceed the combined traffic of all blogging apps.

My argument was directed on your statement and the social part of Steem.

I honestly don't see what's wrong with content from other platforms being crossposted on Steem

I see. But it's up to the voting stakeholders to either monetize that content or not.

I understand your feeling but that is how social media is shared and consumed these days. Long form blogging like Medium.com has been left in the dust. The quality posts of old are not a viable way forward at least if we want to be a social community. My concern about share2steem is that memebers don't have to participate on the blockchain to be rewarded but I feel like it is the cost of advertising that we need to bring new members into the fold. Once they are here awhile they'll want to know what the community is all about. The instagram influencer sphere is massive .