RE: NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THIS VIDEO OR ANYTHING ON STEEMIT
Is youtube really a social network though? 'S mostly just a video archive for me. Most of the folks I watch there don't seem to get much profit from it either and decent bigger channels all run on sponsorship deals of their own... but that bit is besides the point -- many platforms tried to take on Youtube/Twitch/Linked-In on their turf and failed. Sure to have even mild success on STEEM you have to be about Crypto at least a little bit -- see artists that share their drawing/drawing processes here and at the same time sell works on Etherum auction sites
But yes, all of STEEM's current interfaces were not designed for social interactions as much as simple blogging. No re-steem with comment, no re-steeming of comments themselves no advanced feed filtering options, PM's through memos instead of a private chat like you mentioned...
It's possible to go on a bold venture to design a UI that could handle those features, but without some clever workarounds it would probably be completely incomparable with steemit. the worst and still most popular STEEM interface.
You bring up some good points. Youtube first and foremost is a search engine, second it's a video hosting platform but thirdly it is a community. there's so much more engagement on youtube in the comments section, there's a community tab for people to interact with their audience, they actaully recently got rid of messaging but there was a messaging feature up until recently. People actually go to youtube for education as well as pure entertainment. Most of us IMHO come here to play the game, not because we truly enjoy the platform unless you enjoy that game aspect of it but I'm not comming to steemit to watch something for purely entertainment value or to necessarily learn a how to type skill.
I agree it's incredibly hard to make a video platform, I've seen vidme and many other fail and fall by the wayside.
You mention how Steemit wasn't built to be a social network, your completely right but that said its kinda fucked up how that's what we've made it. Being early adopters and because this is open source and decentralized we all have kind of a voice in terms of what this site is, what type of site it is and we've turned it into a social networking site as opposed to a content site. The only way to earn here is to create and rewards aren't really based onwhat you create just that your creating something which gives no incentive to creating quality content which leaves us all just playing the game. I see lot sof people on here who I like personally but who's accounts have turned into posting stupid pictures or google image pictures several times per hour, there's no quality in that. There's no community in that.
We essentially have a blogging platform that rewards social connectivity, those two things dont jive. Either the entire platform needs to be changed into more of a facebook type format where we can all make friends and connect or we need to actually start rewarding quality content.
It's probably a widely recognized fact by now that #steemit, the basic template that it is, won't change. Our next big hope is what @ned himself is cooking up with that project Destiny of his, the one for "on boarding casual Joes/Janes" you know. Maybe that project includes the said better interface, with actual social sharing functions?
The second best option, but unfortunately a very remote possibility right now -- an independent dev team designing a revolutionary new interface, possibly through a #utopian-io cooperative process. Except so far interface development project have been about individualistic competition, which is not a bad thing, but when most dare not deviate too much from steemit's template (the specialized one's that tried, like Musing, dlike, SteemHunt are very-narrowly focused and barren of functionality) lest they lose out on comparability, where not revolutionizing as much as iterating on the same thing.
As for "playing the game", you are a businessman, so I suppose you see the optimal "earning" opportunities on STEEM and that "game" (along with paid crypto promotion campaigns) does seem to be the best way to "earn a living" on STEEM right now? I've not come here to earn though, so I'm a bit more free to mess about with the platform in "unproductive" ways. That said I do want to see the platform grow and will direct my own efforts there, limited as they are.
I don't really keep up with the inner workings of Steemit so it's good to hear maybe there's some hope and there's some development going on. One thing I will say that I enjoy about this platform is it's kind of an anything goes platoform. While I enjoy talking about Entrepreneurship and business I'm not lockedin to talking about those topics
Well If you're interested in occasional re-steems about updates on STEEM's inner working or new interaction tools, you can see those in my feed. Some stuff I re-steem is a bit on the technical side or has to do with art tools and contests, but I try to keep up with and track down generally useful stuff as well:
How about voicing your concerns to @ned directly, in this Q&A
Or, have you heard about dclick, STEEM-based AdSense -- additional monetization for your posts?
That kind of stuff.
I'm definitely gonna check out a lot of the stuff you've mentioned, however I do think that is part and parcel of the problem, and maybe it's just how Steemit is built, again that type of stuff is way over my head but your casual social media user needs things simple, easy and dumbed down. The fact I have to hop around to 6 sites to interact with one site, quite frankly I'm too lazy to do it and it just seems like too much dedication to the platform to have to learn and keep up with all this stuff. The stuff you mentioned, especially the Dclick interests me so I will look into it but that's kinda why I havn't gotten more involved and also what hinders adoption
Yes- steem needs it’s own discord- my husband has been saying to me for a while why steemit goes to discord and why not develop their own discord because they need a group chat and pm feature. Everyone goes to discord cos steemit is lacking in this - then everyone is engaging on discord instead of steemit.
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