Were you around in the days of Zappl? That was “Twitter for Steem” back in the day. Unfortunately the team seemed more focused on fundraising than development and it folded. Think I still have some worthless tokens I purchased in my bitshares wallet!
I agree Twitter & Instagram style content should be embraced. I think one of the best approaches to propel such projects forward is to refine the displays on hive.blog, PeakD, and other “core” Hive sites that are more long form focused. These front ends should potentially not show content from dApps geared toward a radically different format, have it be a user toggle preference, or create a widget style feed/homepage which separates out blog/pic/microblog/Actifit, etc. into respective containers, sidebars, footers and such.
I do like having a “one stop” site for all my Hive needs, but the uncontrolled mingling of content types and posting cultures creates a lot of unnecessary friction in content sorting, discoverability, and user interaction.
You put perfectly. It is how I get pissed off with running into Appics posts on Steem. Perhaps a parallel space or something like what Musings.io tried to science by making everything into one long ass thread that won't make any sense if you don't use the dapp
Id say it should show the content in a different manner. Even as we speak @peakd has "communities", "topics" which is the "ex" trending page, "favorites", "your feed" etc. It could simply add a new content category related to "microblogging". @asgarth, could this work?
Why do we even need a community for micro blogging? I really enjoy micro blogging rather than a 1500 text wall. People shouldn't hesitate to posts stuff that they enjoy on their blogs even if it's a 50 word text that makes one "feel" something.
Do you feel that a 100 word posts doesn't deserve rewards / good rewards or something?
I didnt mean a community for microblogging. I meant that a frontend would present the microblogging dapp as a "new content category".
I personally feel that frontends like peakd should do exactly that. Offer multiple choices for what content a user might like. A sort of portal to crypto social media.
There is a place for everything. Categorization is essential as well as a system where comparison in value of certain content genres is pointless. SMTs will allow for that.
I have a feeling that we still have a long way to go before we get there...
Here's a mock-up I made for a post almost three years ago, when content from Zappl and Steepshot was more prevalent. I'd still love a widget setup like this.
"trending" is just an algorithm. There are potentially tens of thousands of trending pages. The most well known page is ALL TOPICS (or no topic... depending on how you think of it)
I was a big fan of Zappl !
https://peakd.com/zappl/@darkflame/spiderman-demands-zappl-memes