RE: Retiring From dMania (Why I Undelegated Power And Will Move My Elite Meme Game Else Where!)
I generally agree with this. Dmania always just seemed like a bit of a "I'm gonna post memes and hope the dmania account upvotes me" kinda thing.
I think the bigger issue, and I'd been to hear @ats-david's thoughts on this, is that the apps don't currently have any separation, when it comes to Steemit.
For instance, Zappl makes a lot of sense if my posts never show up on Steemit. Currently they do, and that kinda defeats the point. I'd love somewhere that I can dump my random thoughts, that the people who follow me for blog articles don't have to deal with.
Even Dtube - I think right now you're better off just posting your video to youtube and embedding it in a Steemit post, because otherwise you're paying 25% to drive your followers from your place in their Steemit feed over to the DTube site (and this will be the case until their videos embed, or until there's enough people discovering your content via DTube to justify it)
@rossdcurrie you make a couple great points I really really agree with.
DTube to me isn't really worth posting too. They take 25% of my curation reward and if you read the details your videos only stay up for 5 years and after that you would have to pay them to host it is my understanding. Now granted 5 years is a long time but Youtube will host my video for free forever, and they aren't taking a cut. Also as a youtube creator I can drive more views to my Youtube videos where I'm getting paid as well from there. The only benefit I can see to Dtube is you get in front of an audience on DTube you may not be exposed to on Steemit since DTube watchers are probably more into video content and steemit watchers are more into written content.
I think you also make a great point about all these platforms posting to Steemit. I remember last summer when I first started using Steepshot I was very surprised when I saw the content show up on my Steemit blog. Being new I kind of assumed they were two seperate platforms. I've kind of gotten used to it and it doesn't bother me but I can see the benefit to seperating the platforms ie if I blog once a day but I also post 5 photos a day my blog kind of starts getting bogged down with photos. I think its only natural its easier to post more pics than it is writing so photos from Steepshot kind of wind up dominating your blog stream.