Cross-posting

I'm not a big fan of cross posting as in reality I haven't used any of the other social media platforms much in the past - all except Reddit.

I noticed they've added some new functions lately such as just posting on your account and having people follow you as a person too instead of just communities. Sounds a bit backwards than how Steemit are doing it but at the same time it sounds like Reddit trying hard remaining on top in a fast changing market while there are platforms out there trying to take it's place. Not just that but there are some underdogs out there too who will not be relying as much on advertisement than the current centralized platforms doing everything they can to get out as much from advertisement as possible to please their shareholders. I remember when I heard of the new Reddit CEO and I suspected that Reddit was becoming a place of just making as much as possible out of their users than the free place I expected it to become in the beginning. I loved Reddit, I told all my friends to use it but not many did, they created their account but didn't get started properly cause they never spent the time on customizing their accounts to look for and follow their favorite subreddits. If they had they would've quickly gotten the swing out of it and appreciated how well it worked compared to most other giants out there at the time. As Reddit started becoming famous through the AMA's or being mentioned in more and more places it started ti rise in growth exponentially, as Andreas Antonoupolos said, social media platforms need a certain amount of users who know people who are there until they give it a proper try. After that threshold is crossed the userbase goes vertical cause about everyone joins.

Comparing Steem to Reddit would be like.
On Reddit you spend time, read posts, read comments and sometimes interact. If everyone would just be reading and never using it, there would be no comments. People are commenting not just because they get worthless karma points, they want to comment. Say something funny, get recognition/attention. Inform someone of how things really are, write about some interesting things in your life and compare with others, get rewarded karma points. Say opinions and have debates, get rewarded for your valuable time with karma points. There's nothing wrong with that, but wouldn't it be great if you could get rewarded for your time?

On Steem, every community could reward anyone for any possible activity.
Imagine you find your favorite community on Steem, how quickly you could meet an insane amount of people who share your same interests from all parts of the world - no restrictions. The miracle of being able to send anyone in the world a steem within seconds, that person being able to use it to buy food within seconds, a lot of people unfortunately forget this part. It's not particularly their fault, they either live in a developed country where they've never had problems with their bank (although statistically that is very unlikely cause everyone hates their banks). Finding content or answers that you could've never imagined just of the difference that a knowledgeable person at the right place at the right time didn't go "meh it would take way too long time to respond" which is a likely possibility even knowing he'd get inflated 10k karma points.

Unrelated but can you imagine the feel of an early Redditor getting their karma points inflated? I know they are worthless but just compare it to crypto if they ever decided to airdrop on their users. Oh great, the 100k karma points I had are worth 10x less now just because they decided to change the algorithm of how voting works making them give out 10x as much karma. Even on a centralized point system that's worthless, they show you what centralization does. If Vitalik had enjoyed Reddit as much as he did World of Warcraft, this change would've made him drop it and look for a solution, which incidentally is what ticked him off about the company nerfing his Warlock so he created Ethereum.

The best part with Steem is, you don't even have to create an account and look for communities, that's just a bonus. You could be using an app your friend told you to try and you like that app so much that you use it daily and one day you find a link beside the play button that say "try out our new game - you can login with the same account". "Oh that's cool, I can use the same account, wonder how that works" as you google "Steem coin apps" and find a world of apps, communities, people, businesses and anything you could have imagined.

Not only does it take a long time for social media platforms until the userbase explodes, they will take a long time until you will find (d)apps that wouldn't even work on other social media platforms or mobile apps you used to use. They would have functions that due to the censorship resistant blockchain and the rewardpool, they could offer you a much wider array of choices. Many of these are not invented yet and it's just normal for new tech to mainly attempt at taking down similar current giants because they can. I'm mostly excited about dapps that will be "blockchain only", those inventions are gonna take things to the next level.

To go back to the title of this post, for those that managed to read this far. I've been thinking about cross-posting onto Reddit as that's the only other platform I've ever used for fun for a long time. So I was wondering what your thoughts would be on that? If any people with Reddit accounts would like to follow me, I'll leave my account address in the comments. As you know lately I've just been trying to maintain the subreddit while working on restarting OCD in a new manner. I think it could be interesting to grow a following there and make sure the subreddit has some good use for people asking questions or posting their share of news into it. It certainly wouldn't hurt.

I've also noticed the amount of spam in the comments having gone down a lot after HF20 or is that just cause of low price? :) Nice to still see a lot of activity from the current userbase and dapps either migrating or being built on Steem at a time like this! I can tell you it's a lot more than the all time lows. :)

PS. I've also noticed I get even less spammers if I don't add an image to my post, wonder what that's all about.