In recent months much of my time, energy, and efforts have gone to Steemhunt.
After my resignation from the role of Guardian, and a subsequent minor internal reorganization, I now have more time available again. Worry not, I’m still continuing as a Steemhunt mod but will also have time to look at other projects again.
Time for the usual: reading, writing... my Steem feed basically.
To Return or Not to Return
Almost a dozen of moons ago I started one of the first @steem-apps specific Steem accounts, @steemobserver. Anybody who has followed me knows that I have always strongly believed in the potential of the Steem blockchain, both as an alternative economy and also as a platform - a base layer for the Internet of Infrastructure.
In the first few weeks running @steemobserver was interesting and fun a thing to do but the truth is that writing it wa much more difficult a task. Mostly because the Steem ecosystem hadn’t sufficiently developed yet.
Currently that situation has changed and slowly but surely the blockchain is evolving to its inevitable future: apps, apps, and eventually SMTs.
Don’t ask me for ay roadmap because if that’s what you hope to learn... I can only point at the 2016 roadmap for now.
Nevertheless barely a day passes or another fart app is launched on the Steem blockchain. Recent months have seen several awesome verticals launched, and built on Steem as well as cool side-projects like the SteemWhale by @roelandp.
I’m not one of those who drink any Kool Aid, nor am I a fanboi. The world, and the Steemosphere, already have enough of those and don’t need one more.
As such I’m considering bring @steemobserver back but I’m not yet fully convinced.
One of the reasons why I would bring it back is because of the potential to build a whole off-Steem website around it. But that site would suffer from Google’s duplicate content penalty if articles are also submitted to the Steem blockchain. And Steemit would benefit all Google juice.
One of the reasons why I’m not sure about whether I want to bring it back is because currently the Steem-blockchain still doesn’t really offer a decent format for multi-authored accounts. Of course, without that feature, it leads to the inevitable the question “why would people submit to another account if they may as well grow their own profile in the Steem meta echo chamber”.
And, of course, that same question applies to myself.
Other Initiatives
I curate, I curate lots, and I curated long before Steem already. I will soon launch several new accounts, accounts focused mostly on being a tumble log, a collection of “cool finds”.
Expect “cool hunts”, stuff not fit for @Steemhunt, interesting longreads, and miscellany geekery. I may give Parley.io a try for some of those but it seems that the platform is mostly spammed by very few and could do some with some better content, especially commentary. Even $TU 3 just for a link is too much.
TL;DR
Even though I’m not deluded enough to think that anybody missed me, my presence in their comments, or anything like that... expect to see me popup in those again.
Anyway, enough self-referential content for today. Let’s 🤘.
PS: I apologize in advance for the hassle, or more boring element of those, but expect 1-2 Steemhunts by yours truly weekly in your feed. Steemhunt has a rather complex algo and for those, like me, who care highlighting the best products it is primordial that we maintain our “Hunter Level” and “User Score”. This requires also occasional posting of hunts. I will only post hunts here to maintain my own level though, other hunts will be posted to my @dashroom alt, on days I don’t hunt from this account. Because... ethics matter.