The News
use me as a proxy. I just noticed one I voted for is inactive, so I will move my vote.It has been quite a week for #Steem. Just a week ago Steemit Inc was bought by the Tron company owned by @justinsunsteemit. So he now controls a big chunk of the available Steem. We well have to see how he chooses to use that power. There are worries he could displace the existing witnesses, but if we all use out votes we may be able to prevent that. Feel free to
A lot of people are justifiable concerned about what plans Justin has for Steem, but it is looking like a lot of witnesses are cautiously optimistic.
The markets have not gone overboard on the news. Steem is up a bit on a couple of weeks ago, but has settled down for now. It is still in the high 70s of the crypto charts.
Follow-worthy Steemians
- We have had posts by Steemit employees @andrarchy, @vandeberg and @gerbino. They seem to think the new owner can have a positive influence.
- TwitterMembers of the Tron community have been joining Steem. @jtsofficial has 19.5k followers on . They now have a decentralised place to post. @offgridlife has been doing a lot to help them get started. I have offered to create accounts for people, but Steemit are processing them in hours now.
- quickstart guide aimed at 'Tronics'.Tribes like @steem.leo are helping out too. They have a
- One Tronic who contacted me for help was @hilman.pradigo. If you find others then make them welcome.
Join a community, or three
Steem communities have been in beta for a few weeks on Steemit and Steempeak. In the last week they became part of the main sites. Anyone can create a community for 3 Steem, but you need to work on building them up and making them useful. The idea is that you can follow a community rather than all the members who may do other posts you are not interested in. Communities have administrators who can control what appears there.
- I have created Guitar and Home Automation communities. I welcome more people to add relevant posts.
- The BEER Community is already pretty big thanks to the efforts of @detlev.
- I know of at least two communities devoted to comics. I would hope the comic artists can congregate on this one or this one.
- I may be active on the Running Community, but will not be posting every run there. In my opinion it should be for more general posts about training, gear or events, but that is up to the community members to decide.
- a community. That may be somewhere to track what issues need attention.The @SteemFlagRewards group also has
I would love to see communities migrate from other platforms such as reddit. Why not when Steem offers more freedom as well as rewards. We just need to build the audience to make it viable.
The Doghouse
An easy way to find people who are trying to milk rewards by buying votes is to check the transactions on those bots. These are some for @boomerang. You will soon find some buying multiple votes per day who deserve some attention. They are not doing this to promote their posts, it is just to get unearned rewards. I leave it to you to decide if this should go on.
Steem on!
This is what I love about Steem!
Similarity and difference.
Communuities and folllowers.
Some of the stuff you mention I love, others I couldn't care less about.
But maybe I'll care more about guitars in 2021 becuase I've connected with you in other ways!
Potentially very powerful this commmunities/ follow thing... not sure that was entirely intentional.
But if it was then Kudos!
We need variety to appeal to a wide audience. It can't all be about crypto. We are doing pretty well at this anyway. Communities could help.
Communities now brought new signs of more effective Adoption because in my opinion now Account Creation is also improved, Content Discovery will improve and most importantly Niche Communities means more effective Engagement and Retention Rate.@steevc,
Now things looks good and aligned. Stay blessed.
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ive made you my proxy! steevc for president! (decentralised obviously) Im not sure if im going to be any good at growing my new community... hopefully I can get some good administrators in to help me at some point
BreadBakers community :)
Cool. Will post there some time.
John Tron squad are really dope. Followed and interacted with them. Got a lot of hits and followers on Twitter.
Loving the Communities feature. Question : Are we allowed to post cross the same post. Say in dtube then go post the same thing at OCD...the written part that is ??
Or will that be considered Spam ?? thnx
What is spam is up to the communities to decide. Steempeak has a cross-posting feature, but I've not quite worked it out yet.
Yeah, I think I said it last week or maybe two weeks ago, but I am still shocked by how much people are buying votes. It kind of stings a little bit when my posts are making so little. I guarantee if I were to buy upvotes then I would get flagged right away and others do it with no repercussions.
I think there are less than before. It is a mix of those who don't know better and those who will just see what they can get away with. The former may be possible to persuade to change.
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