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RE: Using SteemAnalytics: Are We Discussing the Right Things?
I think the community will naturally evolve over time. As voting power is distributed over time the topic diversity should grow as well. People that may have written about steemit initially might have other interests they wish to support as they become more influential. What I really wonder is how fast is this process. Will it months or years? And how much faster can we make it by by actively promoting diverse posts.
Lafona...you are such an underappreciated badass...
I was going to respond til i saw your response..
Thanks Fuzzy!
You are most certainly correct, especially if one uses the history of other sites as our guide. Reddit for instance was obsessed with talking about reddit for the first few years of its existence, there were a high number of posts where people just put up an image of someone on a bus on reddit on their phone, or someone in a class on reddit. Reddit sightings were a huge topic of discussion.
It didn't evolve into something more like it is today, with a wider variety of topics discussed until a few years had passed, and largely until after Digg, crashed and burned. The process seems to take years, however people taking an active role in promoting diverse topics may make it faster. Its a great question as to how much faster, and is actually an interesting social experiment.
Dont forget blockchain tech in general is goig to be a big one as steem evolves and it will helo us teach everyone here about blockchain basics that will necessarily need discussion in the community.
You are right! The point of this post isn't that what we are discussing here now is unimportant, it is important and necessary for new users to get full use out of steemit! Rather, that we should be talking about this stuff, and also focusing on increasing conversation on topics that non crypto people want to read.
I really wanted to use this cool tool that @maruitso developed, to graphically show what we are focused on, and maybe what we focus a bit too little on. :)
A lot faster I believe.New users might lose interest when the trending page is full of internal discussions.
This is where the follow function comes in handy, you can look through areas you like and follow people producing the type of content you enjoy the most. Maybe it won't be on the front trending page, but not making it there doesn't mean the post doesn't have any quality. Depending only on the front page as a source for quality material is going to be problematic. Its like reading Reddit but only looking at r/all. I hardly find the things I like to read trending there.