That's true, for that you have the tags out here. Now let's say you will add the subreddit type community and then the tag will have no meaning as such. For example if you create a subreddit called A which will have all the tags in it, which in any way does the same thing what it is doing now. People will also search for the subreddit which has the highest number of people in it or which has the highest payout.
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Very different. Communities have permissions, owners and moderators. Also, communities have the ability to be monetized by people who make them successful.
Also, imagine if a link sharing site (like hackernews where there is only title and outbound links content) ends up on the trending page of steemit...it would get flagged out of existence. This is why different types of content need to have their own community...not only tags.
But that defeats the purpose of Steemit as well. Think about a communities where you share outbound link and getting upvoted, people who have power will never write contents then will start sharing links to get upvote. The text like in subreddit can also be done out here using the discussion tag, where one tag is restricted to discussion. But let's say, we make community and will not monetize it by upvote and keep it same like reddit then I guess people will not get more involved.
There will be thousands of website using the steem blockchain. All different type of content will be created that won't be compatible with the blog style of Steemit.com. But all that content will show up regardless on the steemit.com website. If they all compete in only 1 bucket, there will be a war between content types. Which will kill development.
If you don't enable communities, all those new apps and front-end (as well as SMTs) are dead in the water.
Ohkk that makes sense, so is the community is based on the SMT level or it is from the website level. Like Busy, ChainBB, Utopian Communities, if it is from the website level then it makes sense because then the website owners and moderators will give permission on what to get posted and what not.
Communities will be able to have their own SMTs (or not). But SMTs will influence rankings(new/hot/trending) within the communities they are implemented in. (multiple communities may share the same SMT)
Yeah now getting a clearer picture of what is the roadmap ahead. Thanks for a great explanation.
My pleasure man.