RE: Open letter to a future Steemian
but why can’t steem be used in the same way any of the other platforms are used ? Someone can use it as a Twitter, or post gifs, pics, or videos. It’s the expectations people put on it in terms of expected returns and what it ought to be that weigh most heavily on the platform.
how many of your friends have reached financial autonomy using Facebook or Instagram ?
I agree that the app use itself can be made friendlier and more intuitive, but it’s an open source project and there’s no reason why it can’t get there at some point in the future. I don’t hear anyone complain that their posts on Instagram or Facebook are matching their hourly wages in their day jobs, yet they spend most of their time publishing and consuming content on those platforms.
So true. It is the expectations which people bring which are the the cage which they hold them selves in.
Taking the monetary picture away, I think the answer to your question is simple. This isn't where the people are.
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If you try to use it like Twitter the cheetah and other bots jump on jou and label your posts as badcontent forever and a day
What’s the point of promoting a free platform if we are going to tolerate those kind of bots. Doesn’t busy.org exist around the concept of using steem as Twitter ?
Yeah to build on this, we're aiming to encourage short-form content in the future too, but at the end of the day there are so many mechanisms and expectations to prevent it - primarily because Steemit.com is the main website people know and use, despite it being far from the best - and is designed to create long-form blogs. So yeah I agree it should be open to all forms, but most forms are considered 'bloat'
With 12 standard full powered votes a day, I find it difficult to assume that the designers of the platforms intended it to be strictly long form content. There is no way anyone can publish at that rate and have it be full form and of high quality at the same time. Not even news papers or production studios with full staff on deck can output at that rate. Nor can anyone be reasonably expected to fully digest 12 pieces of full long format content. Even @ned often posts twitter or Insta style every now and then.
Well, Steem is different to steemit. Steem allows a high number of votes which is why entrepreneurs should get together and create something that can capitalize on this, but and in terms of steemit mechanisms, when you post on steemit, you go to a new editing page with Markdown functionality and a big square box to write in... this is not what you'd expect from a site that wants you to write off-the-cuff commentary on the go. And the site is described as a blogging website, both on wikipedia and steem.io.
A tweet is not a blog, a blog is typically long-form, no?
Anyway, this is a minor issue. there are existing apps out there for what we talk about, but they lack any support and fade into obscurity, unfortunately. Not sure why.
Other sites allow similar functionality, the UI and front end designs are different.
The site is still in beta, and will evolve through user feedback and iterations. It’s fairly new technology compared to what we’re used to.