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RE: Two Things Which Need to Remain True for Steem to Succeed
But how does one build a following on any social media platform? It's irrational to think someone can sign up for Twitter, start firing away tweets, and have anyone see them at all. Without doing the work to interact with others and build a following, no one will see what you post. I'm here commenting on this post because you spent the time to comment on mine and link to it. And now I've followed you. That's how social media works.
Things of value take effort, including building a following.
That said, the long term success of Steemit does involve more and more people building their own following. If that barrier of entry gets too high, we won't see the success we want.
The follower model is inherently pyramid-like. It's not sustainable, and why Twitter hit a plateau so much earlier than its competitors. For the same reason, Twitter is trying to de-emphasize it, by throwing in other stuff into people's feeds (but users don't like it because it's obviously not why they joined Twitter).
I think we will end up more like Youtube, where following (subscribers) and subject, trending video feeds etc. are blended fairly well.
I agree, a blend seems to make the most sense. I wonder also how much it comes down to personal preference. I pretty much only watch videos from channels I've subscribed to because of limited time. I don't want to wade through all the other stuff when I know the people I follow on YouTube consistently put out great content.
Good discussion, thanks.
That's only true on a follower based system. On Reddit, brand new accounts make the front page all the time, because it is subject and community oriented, not follower-based.
Good point. I wonder how much of that has to do with the interface? @jesta's chainBB may help with that as well.
Yes, it pretty much is a consequence of the user interface. Thankfully it is going to change fairly soon, so we'll probably be debating some other social issue in a couple of months.
They better not take away my right to be angry about something!!!111!!!
Heheh.