I think the big problem with Steemit right now is the UI. I wrote a short post about how Steemit is competing with Medium and not Reddit and I really think they need a UI overhaul to represent that.
Steemit should be trying to recruit the best writers, and other content creators, but right now there is not much benefit for people who already have an audience (and that audience is not in the crypto, libertarian space).
Steemit also seems really easy to game right now. I have been tempted to fund 2 accounts with a few thousand dollars each to have decent curation payouts. Hire a couple of cheap writers to produce some content and then just have the 2 accounts upvote each other. With some basic social media outreach; follow, upvote, comment, etc. those accounts would probably start getting followers and organic upvotes. Set the payouts of articles to 50/50 so that I can pull out finds while also growing my Steem power.
But I have no interest in actually doing that, I hope steemit has a long life but I have my doubts. I think Steemit should decentralize itself and copy Wildfire but have a better UI (because again the UI is pretty crappy right now).
Hey @tanstaaflcafe sorry I hadn't responded to your email yet I had it mostly written out and just hadn't sent i t yet but my reply to you was kind of the outline and thought behind this video so thanks for stirring up some thoughts for me. That's actually a genius idea. I know we had kind of briefly chatted about Steemit projects, I actually have a few ideas as well, I'll have to hit you up maybe we can team up on something.
I thought I might have been the inspiration ;-)
I had a plan to do a "Steem Powered" podcast that would focus on decentralization and disintermediation, called unsurprisingly TANSTAAFL cafe, but at this point I don't see myself doing it. I don't think I can get enough of an average payout per episode to justify it. I may still do it someday just because I am interested but my fire went out on the project so I am focusing elsewhere.
I am still going to be semi-active on Steemit as I really want to see it become a legit Medium competitor but I don't see myself investing much time here. At least until inspiration strikes again ;-)
I am going to try and combine Wildfire and Steemit for a 1 - 2 punch of video content curaiton, shouldn't take much time and we will see how those go.
Hit me up as I am always down to explore new ideas.
interesting thoughts tansta, ty