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RE: Hello Steemers! My name is Fede, I'm an author (WIRED, New Scientist, BBC), Singularity University/NASA graduate, activist, researcher and public speaker, excited to be on Steemit!
Everyso often a really interesting person comes along on introduceyourself , that really has something to offer, instead of just showing pictures of their travel or culinary skills ( nothing wrong with these, i read them as well) Your post is one of those outstanding ones and I for one enjoyed reading it. For someone you looks so young you have done amazing things so far in your life - I shall enjoy seeing more of your posts. Thank you
Thanks, it was getting a bit frustrating indeed. I've been browsing a lot looking for quality content, but it's hard to find.
I wonder what changes would be required to make quality content more visible, instead of what's popular. Perhaps a curated section on a separated project? I don't know. Something to think about.
Well, it looks like truth, now I understood why you’ve downvoted my post:)
But as for me this platform is going to be a big thing only if it have a variety of different characters, from which everybody can choose something worthy.
And it’s not about to tell others how cool you are in your travel or how good you can cook (I’ve seen a ton of such people in real life and understand your scepticism),
but to find a cross points between the experimentators and theoretics, or field researchers and talented coders, or whatever separated clusters of enthusiastic people is forming here.
Because the most exciting things often appears on a borders of two bubbles.
Unfortunately, here on a little island where we staying now, the active community is mostly represented by enlightened hippies, so Steemit is the way to catch a pearls in the sea full of plastic waste, like everywhere - if you know what to look for.
I’m glad you’re here, this platform needs more fresh minds in it, despite its self-regulatory!
at the moment the trending page has nothing to do with what's popular but more to do with what whales like or think might be popular or useful to attract as many signups as possible.
on steem we have not seen the wisdom of the crowds at work yet, pretty much the opposite.
currently the trending section is infact a curated section (by whales)
I 'm sure you noticed this as your intro quickly gained votes but didn't gain any traction until a whale spotted it.
I think most problems will be resolved when the platform reaches wide adoption , then tags and sections will have more importance and the swarm effect might mitigate whales influence.
btw a huge welcome. me and I bet many others share your interests and I'm sure in time there will be a market for every topic. that's when I'll bother blogging myself.
We've come up with something... called Red-tagging and Green-tagging.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@cogliostro/2-cocky-new-curator-tools-for-steemit-green-tagging-and-red-tagging
Not sure if devs are paying attention, though.
Note that the data is all on the blockchain, which is public and open source, so anyone can create a new UI that promotes content on different algorithms. You can also post arbitrary data to the chain, so you can implement different voting semantics if you want. Of course, that won't generate payouts, but there's probably some hybrid approaches that would utilize the existing payout voting structure and add some useful other data. Sky's the limit. :)