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RE: Quick Chat: Insight Into Why Many Casual Social Media Users Won't Use Steemit Yet
It's good you bring those topics up, as I think it can seem like a tone is being deliberately cultivated on Steemit, when I don't think that's the aim of the whales. If it is, then that needs to be stated clearly and officially for new people to know.
There is a lot of value in basic entertainment for people. So whether something is 1000 word philosophy or quick slapstick humour shouldn't matter. Yet that kind of stuff really saturates a platform; but there's no word min on Steemit yet, right!?
What I gathered is that Steemit's aim is more "highbrow", not formal, but more like Medium in terms of what is Trending.
If all the de facto spokespeople are in crypto or anarchist gurus...Im not sure what that does to encourage mainstream adoption.
I agree with your points and especially the last part! I'm really wondering how Steemit will look like in a year from now and hopefully we together can figure out how to reach the mass and at the same time keep out the trash..
But yes accessibility in terms of topics and post lengths is an important topic and since social media serves the main purpose of entertainment I believe we need to consider a shift in content, at least the focus of it.
I just don't think it's possible to solve the problems of online content (plagiarism, clickbait, fact manipulaton, etc) and achieve mainstream use to the degree of facebook.
Not completely, and I think extreme measures to try to do so are enormously counterproductive. On the other hand some degree of users preferences against these things (which may vary) can be reasonably expressed through voting without crating a hostile atmosphere.
A unique views counter in the public UI (for blog posts) would make a great difference. It works with the incentive system which is steemit's edge and niche. Since steemit has a superior incentive system to any platform, makes sense to borrow any of the incentives that work on the other media sites as is possible.
Adding views would help for feedback when there is lack of replies and upvotes for people. and people 'fill in the blanks' themselves as to what views mean and how many is 'good' feedback to them. Whereas numbered dollar values have some anchoring (and disillusionment at times, currently). Enables for "self-curation" that isn't shooting in the dark
There definitely should be separation between "curating" and "cultivating" tone and content because it's obtuse to have hidden biases. There is some hostility sometimes yes. All of the fun of a monetized system! Just look at youtuber wars omg
Yeah, personally, I'd rather see a view counts in the feed than estimated payouts.
Nothing, it's antithetical to it, because most mainstream thinkers believe anarchic thought to be juvenile and ridiculous. If they want wider acceptance, they need to take the reins off and let the platform run itself. The last few days, there has obviously been a concentrated effort to exclude entertaining content from the top of the trending page in favor of Crypto and blockchain content.
More conventional people probably think Anarchy is cultish in the way I think that Garden of Eden is. Anything that refers to someone as "our founder"...I try not to judge let's leave it at that. Least no one does that on Steemit. Imagine how bizarre..."our founders, Ned and Dan. Our future AI blogger revolutionaries...fuck it, let's all buy an island somewhere!"
lol Yup. I already buggered-off to Chile and am building a new start-up community in the rainforest now. I prefer to live my ideals rather than just arguing about them on the internet :)
It doesn't even sound cultish or weird (I'm serious), that's hard to do! lol Pretty cool endeavor
HA, that's hilarious it doesn't sound cultish, or weird, but it clearly has the potential to be both, right? LOL I agree, it sounds cool. Hard thing is, we're running the western world into the ground so hard that more and more people feel that way, and we should not need to feel that an escape is necessary.
ha! Thanks 😀
True. At least at first glance the association is strong. Doesn't matter if the beliefs are politically and philosophically sound. I know I first became interested in Anarchy because I was into punk rock and breaking things as a teen. That's still the first thing I think of...