Feedback on Porting Content
Soliciting your feedback:
Should I wrangle together an API-driven post importer for the largest social networks?
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Steemit API + Whichever Social Network's API = Move posts over programatically.
Alright, so-- here';s the deal. The web is chock full of my content, and yours, too. I'm fairly prolific, it turns out, so I've thousands of tweets, >600 quora ansers, and an innumerable number of facebook posts . I know that people could migrate a ton of content with this in minutes, but what I'd like to know is if people want it.
I'm also curious-- does the team who created Steemit think this falls within what they intended for it? -- or is "post recycling" a form of "steemit abuse"?
What about my 7000-ish tweets? Or yours?
Your several hundred Youtube Videos?
These APIs are relatively simple, and posts surely could get moved. Since there's no other content platform that's given me $1500 when I really, really needed it, I'm of course happy as hell to make them, if that's what people would like. Please let me know in the comments :).
Eminently Doable are:
* Google+
* Medium.com
* Wordpress Blogs
* Ghost Blogs
* RSS Feeds
Harder, but ttotally doable:
* Quora (though since they have no API we'd have to be somewhat sneaky and scrapy, but it's very doable)
PROS
- you know that there are some gems in your content that you'd like to share with everyone
- you think that having the content HERE could benefit the site
CONS
- Concerned that some of your content is no longer as relevant as it should be or relevant at all
- Don't want to flood the site with shit, particularly from plagiarizers & abusers
- Some of these sites have TOS that state they own your content. But here's how I dealt with that at Quora:
I'm curious what people think about this. I forsee many screaming abuse, but, people are already doing so manually. It's only a matter of time before someone creates this.
....Right? And really, none of the other platforms monetize content that's hosted on them, so I kinda figure it's among the "awesome killer features" people would like, but before I go and do it, I'd like to make sure that this is something that's not going to overwhelm the site / fits with the vision :).
As much as I would love to migrate the more than three years' worth of almost daily content I have on my blog, I don't know if it's the spirit of the Steemit philosophy. Yes, it's my content and therefore original, but it's not exactly fresh. That poses a moral dilemma, if not an ethical one.
If Steemit is about sharing unique, original content that adds value to the lives of its users, it seems as if the content we share should be created specifically for Steemit. On the other had, sharing good content, regardless of when it was originally created, may very well trump that because of the value it brings to the community. Additionally, it's an excellent opportunity to reach a wider audience for bloggers content creators who have been producing quality content for years only to have it be lost in the endless sea of Facebook and WordPress content generated every day.
I guess in the end I would be for it, with the warning that the potential exists for abuse. But that's true of everything, isn't it?
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback.
Okay, so you're kinda where I'm standing:
PROS
CONS
....that about right?
Nail on the head, man. The biggest fear I have is flooding the site with canned content and random shitposters. We're already dealing with enough of that as it is!
I am not so interested in seeing heaps of old content being pulled from existing platforms only to be reposted here. I most certainly would not mind seeing people being able to seamlessly post across numerous platforms simultaneously and hit all channels, however. Though, of course, it would be neat to get Steemit exclusives, but I have a feeling this might very well happen regardless once more and more people realize the potential.
But-- the scenario you mention is totally why I asked. In my 7000 tweets there's gotta be a fairly high %age that are somewhat inane.
OTOH, Google. I assume that Steemit is indexed, right?
I suppose it depends on which content you have stored there. If it is timeless and remains interesting or informative today I see no reason why you cannot transfer it. On the other hand though, and like I said above, if it is evident the content is old (or even outdated) there is little to no point in transferring.
on the second point I'm not even so sure:
For the user, their content is now on a blockchain
For steemit, eacfh post should teoretically increase steemit's aggregate chance of popping up in a google query, right?
....but I'm most worried about my tweets. I gotta guess that a solid 50% are fairly vapid/inane.
Just in case anyone else had this idea, please know that the overall feedback I got here and in Slack was:
Not now, there are enough scale issues.