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RE: ๐ณ ๐ Looking For Niche - The Complete Overview - Our Mission Statement ๐ ๐ณ
Tool to find like-minded people by signing up to the tags that interest you [this] tool that exists in many Discords - not just our own (through WhaleBoT)
This is the one differentiating thing?
I mean everybody is looking for a community for finding like-minded people. That was what actually put me off in the 1st place. Like:
Due, we all want that..
Can you elaborate? I am not sure what you mean.
Well it seems the only thing that discerns LFN from other community efforts like yours is the whalebot LFN subject to find other users or?
There are new projects being (helped) stated and supported by LFN (Looking For Nichetive) already. But I suppose, if you don't want to partake in community creation, then LFN is a community hub that directly and indirectly connects various communities via WhaleBot. It's a way to bring everyone using WhaleBot together at a meta level. There is no requirement (for non community builders) to use the dedicated Discord other than it makes it easier to connect with those, you find through the tool.
Sure but what more can we do? I'm willing to help, of course I am! I'm just critical and I have high standards :D
So what about this:
What if we would post links to related posts from other writers in your posts? Like in the bottom or even referencing them? People who are reading could get to know other writers from the community as well.
I was publishing transcripts of the truth about vaccines and then it occured to me who else is writing about it. So I'll be linking to them for reference.
I will be adding curation to the list of LFN activities, but I don't think I will be doing it like your example. I'm not sure of the click through value to the writer, it's probably not very valuable unless you write about the post in question.
However, I have already written a few posts about the members of LFN and their niches/posts, and I will be delegating this out to people interested in helping with curation. I haven't found a way to do it in any different way compared to other curation projects (you wished for discernible features) nor am I sure, if it would be better to have a different dedicated account for such a project.
If you have other ideas, feel free to reach out on Discord.
I see a lot of people are trying to do the same thing but I don't get the differnces or why not cooperate with say build-a-whale?
But sure it's your baby and I have no right to complain :) It's just the effort and if it is worth it when other people are doing the same.
But who knows, maybe the LFN is great for creating exactly those niches and tags. One thing that frustrates me is the duplicate usage of tags i.e. there are multiple ways of saying the same thing.
#BISteemit is a great example of how to properly do a tag, it's Business Inteligence and regarding the platform Steemit. Technically however someone could use #BISteem as well and it'll be the same thing.
Maybe talk about it in Discord and then bring it up next Saturday on the Whaletank?
Build A Whale is fine project in my opinion. However, they write about people that use Build A Whale (to my knowledge), in other words, it's not immediately compatible. I see no problem in having multiple similar projects (or curation really being sub-projects in the case of Build A Whale and LFN).
Feel free to critique, I welcome different viewpoints. Regarding whether it's worth the effort: Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. I enjoy building LFN and people are sometimes requesting me these types of additions. I see no reason to not add curation, or to add something else similar to other projects. I believe LFN on it's own is a fairly unique project that can stand alone, if enough people find value in it, but at the same time, I love to branch out with things, that make sense to me.
Yes I would say it is (but I am obviously biased). As described in the post, @paulag found people through LFN, and if I am not mistaken, LFN was among the inspirations to her wish to have a community about data and probably even the community around the tag she started #BISteemit.
Yes someone could use BISteem instead, but if they are part of the BISteemit community, there is really no reason for them to do so.
A better example would be something like comic and comics. Comics is a trending tag in itself, but comic is also being used everyday. Would it make sense to only have one tag? Yes and no.
Yes because: If people want to be a collected community, then they can start building comics as the only tag. LFN is a tool to find people for such a community.
No because: People should be able to use the tag they wish. If they feel comic is more applicable to their content (maybe it's a one of comic strip and not a comic book series). Then they should be free to use that instead.
And yet again, if you have some ideas, please feel free to reach out on Discord. It's much less asynchronous than having to write collected thoughts here every other day :P
I can't yet say, if I will bring the curation project to Whaletank or not just yet. I usually sign up later, when I have things figured out.
I agree with you that the art is to find people not posts. I also wonder how one could set up a curation trail, follow a group of people under the same tag but without the tag spamming. Just quality posts about one subject. And of course get in touch with people this way.