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RE: Spread the Word!

in #steemit6 years ago

That's great and all, but Steemit's native platform isn't the best place to do that. At its core, Steemit is a reddit look-alike that gives crypto instead of karma. Reddit thrives as a platform because of valuable content curation algorithms. If you post just to post on Reddit, unless it's in the comments of another post, you're not likely to gain much attention/karma. It's the same thing here on Steemit but the problem is that nobody seems to care.

Most of the shit on YouTube is garbage but its not getting flagged and their audience is huge.

It doesn't get flagged because YouTube does the work in its own search algorithms to hide low-quality content, which is yet another thing that Steemit doesn't have going for it and makes comparing the two irrelevant.

The best thing that we as potential influencers can do is to encourage others to interact with the CC's who post content that they like, rather than just upvoting and moving on. That's where the hanging out aspect comes into play. As a CC myself, I know that I very much appreciate engaging with an audience who is engrossed and critical of my work. It keeps us going and reminds us why we share.

Just some thoughts from the other side of the fence.

Cheers to you.

~ Mako

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Well, reddit also doesn't require people to invest their own crypto to drive up the price. If new users aren't buying in from exchanges, the price will continue to tank with 9% reward inflation and then .71 is nowhere near the bottom. I mean, I love being optimistic, but Dogecoin is valued 3.5 times higher than Steem right now so to say Steem is far from dead depends on one's definition of alive. Then they speak of SMTs...part of the value of SMTs is a vibrant user base here on Steem that isn't really here anymore because people keep leaving. Oh, and Dan is about to launch a competitior on EOS so theres that too....

One of the Steemit Inc. bubble brains the other day wrote something to the effect of I'm not worried about the first 1,000,000 users, I'm planning for the next 100,000,000. OK Capt. Clever...why don't you worry about trying to get to 100K happy daily users first....and that mobile app first promised in 2017.

I hope I'm wrong and the platform continues to evolve and get more valuable. Only time will really tell.

Oh, and Dan is about to launch a competitior on EOS so theres that too....

Competition is good for industry, so this is very good news. Competition drives industry to change and adapt in order to stay at the top. Right now, Steemit (though an awesome concept), has no competition so it's easy for it to stay stagnant ie. not deliver on promises made. We'll see how it reacts to that change.

~ Mako