Don’t expect too much from Hivemind. The more you expect the more you set yourself up for disappointment.
Lots indeed requires mega promotion but that’s not different from maintaining your own blog, self-hosted or hosted by a blogging platform.
It’s not because you wrote it that the hordes will storm down your front page to read you.
When I still managed an indie blog network, we spent thousands every month to promote and boost newly launched blogs and lesser known sites. Some sites were old and lucky enough to be in main aggregators (like Techmeme) or had many RSS subs but that was the result of them being written by authors with a large network. Not just because of the content published. Other times that happened because we invested in promoting those sites.
Everything else than a custom google search will already be satisfactory :)
I still think that steem Inc. is interested in a better way to find content, not guided by wealth but by talent, see this introduction of a good person token, which together with hivemind sounds like an interesting approach:
https://steemit.com/steem/@nairadaddy/good-person-token-something-big-is-coming-from-steemit-inc
Those are announcements, not actually shipped elements/code.
Communities have been announced since 2016 IIRC. A mobile app (iOS) was announced as ready at SteemFest 2017.
I also think you need to understand what Steemit.com and GPT are: they are the centralized roll-out models which aim to create traction and inspire others to build more gateways. I wrote about that here.
Ups, sorry about writing steemit inc. :)
I thought myself that the steemit UI is held back on purpose, but even with all the other interfaces around, I somehow always return to it and almost 2/3 of all posts are still from steemit.com You can see that behavior with busy.org and esteem, people post from there for the upvotes, for commenting they come back to steemit. Steemit will also always be the "main hub"'for account recovery and key management.
That’s also because currently all links always (almost always) redirect to Steemit. It’s a nuisance to constantly change links to busy, although I try as often as possible.
Recently I started using relative links rather than absolute links to Steem contact but that means they don’t work in esteem and other apps. Or wouldn’t work in feed readers (if there were).
All SEO also goes to Steemit.com. There are no
canonicalsettings for apps so apps get hit by duplicate content penalty by Google for their own URLs.Lastly, as a busy and apps user, who am I to hijack someone’s experience and link to busy (or steemhunt) rather than to the Steemit post?
It’s difficult and lots of work still needs to be done before the user can enjoy a more flawless experience and app developers have (SEO/link) parity. Hopefully it will happen in a not too distant future. It would be a great evolution.
See, to adapt Big Sir's words from The Flash a little: Steem Inc. didn't let you down, rather they gave you the remembrance of what hope feels like :)
Hope is for adolescents and young adults who wish to get laid on the weekend.
It's all part of growing up 😅