Transaction, interaction, action on chains

I don't spend a great deal of time on other blockchains or in projects, but I know that many of you do. What I am wondering is when it comes to interaction, how does Steem fare? When I am talking about interaction, I am not talking about transactions alone, but instead the discussion around projects, the community interaction.

I was reading a post by @shortsegments a few moments ago that listed some point where Steem is doing well and while I don't spend a lot of time anywhere other than Steem, I still get the sense that Steem is one of the most active blockchains in the marketplace. Not only that, its activity is not centered around development and trading alone. While the balance may not be perfect, there aren't many projects out there that are able to include all kinds of users, offer potential rewards for all and content for a very wide preference of consumers.

But, how active is it?

I am not sure exactly how this is calculated and i know that there are issues with it, but these are the top 7 most active blockchains and if we have a look at what is going on there, we can see that EOS is crushing it -in blockchain operations

https://blocktivity.info/

I don't really know what the difference is between transactions (Tx) and Operations (Op) are either but after reading this post from 10 months ago from @blocktivity, the difference is that operations are nested inside transactions, so one transaction can carry more than one operation. As you can see, these are all Operation based numbers for these blockchains, which supposedly gives a better view of activity.

After @blocktivity showed a screencap of the EOS blockchain operations saying, "I invite everyone to check the EOS operations from this Tx and see by themselves that there is nothing in these EOS Tx that wouldn't qualify as honest activity on a blockchain" I decided to go and have a look myself at https://eosq.app. I figured that it would look something like https://steemd.com which has things like xxxx authored a post, yyyy upvote, zzzz replied to etc, but it wasn't at all.

Firstly there was a lot of betting activity by the looks, but I also noticed that they track login, is this tracked on Steem?

Then there was this which I am assuming is a bot account as there are nine transactions there and only three blocks.

While this is all well and good and I have no real understanding of what all of it means, there doesn't seem to be very much human going on there. While people talk about too many bots on Steem, I am guessing that not "too many people" complain about the same on EOS as, there doesn't seem to be too many people there at all. I feel that Steem seems to be doing something quite different to EOS and the trajectory is much more community orientated, while EOS is very much transactional - at least at the moment.

For those who spend time around other projects, what is your sense of the communities that surround them, are they "real people" or are the devs and traders looking to boost price of their coins alone? Where do they spend their time communicating with each other and are there normies who are involved or is it still like early BTC with only the tech nerds getting involved?

Does any of this matter?

Well, not necessarily but I also wonder how many of the normal non-dev, non-trader people of Steem would spend their time in crypto if it wasn't for the availability of the Steem blockchain and a place to give some space for community learning, engagement and consumption of stuff that is other than Steem. Where on EOS or Ethereum does @meesterboom, @nonameslefttouse and the likes of @kommienezuspadt or @warpedpoetic have a place and still be able to engage, learn and earn outside of their specialties in a similar way to on Steem? Or a better way?

It seems that while there are narrow experiences possible to support some level, there is not really a city like Steem that offers a growing world of applications, interactions, communities and the people who power them while still providing a shared information pool to drink from. I wonder how transparent EOS really is in regards to the discussions surrounding development of the EOS community.

I think that one of the problems with the transparency of Steem from a community perspective is that everyone can have a say, and like this post where I am dabbling and babbling in an area (the code) that is far outside of my comfort zone and risk being wrong, all says have potential merit in the eyes of the audience who reads it. This means that on Steem much of the good, the bad and the ugly are seen at the very visible UI level and requires no technical skills to form an opinion upon. The social community aspect of Steem is its strength, but also a weakness as people make their opinions on what they read and how they feel, even though they aren't going to or are even able to dig around to find out what the "transparent truth" is beneath, the truth of the blockchain.

I thought that EOS was motoring along doing really well based on those operation counts, but looking at the operations that are actually being logged, it seems that not much is happening there at all. what are the devs developing Yet, the blockchain is not necessarily performing well with it running at 37% capacity.

Steem is running at 0.08%

Again, I do not know how these are calculated or their accuracy, but if that is what EOS is doing with so few users, what happens at the next bullrun where 100M more people could turn up to the crypto party and with them sitting at 7th in market cap, will they scale? Those 3 second and free transactions on Steem are looking pretty good in my opinion.

https://www.stateofthedapps.com/stats#new

What and where are all these thousands of blockchain Dapps and who is using them? 62 New blockchain Dapps registered at state of the Dapps across all platforms. Can you name 5 that aren't on Steem?

Steem apparently logged only 3 of them.

While I don't think this post clears up anything, I do think that it was worth investigating and seeing a little of this view for me as I sometimes feel that we are spoiled for choice on Steem and spoiled for ability to interact and engage with humans, at least in comparison to other blockchains. I wonder what happens if I go into an Ethereum or EOS Telegram channel and share some poetry, a photo from my work trips or a story about my childhood? Of course, that isn't the place for such things.

But where is?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]