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RE: Taking STEEM to the Mainstream Content Consumer - My Experience so Far
the users I am focused on are content consumers, people that have searched for the topic I blog about. They are not content creators and I dont want to try and encourage them do to so. Youtube has way more content consumers that dont care how creators make money than they do have content creators. there is a lot to learn on YT too if you want to earn money. There are communities for Youtube creators to learn the ropes. but we dont need communities to learn how to consumer content on youtube. Steem is more complex because of the rewards and the belief that anyone on the platform should earn. I think this is a mind set we need to change. how we change it to attract more consumers I have no idea.
When I’m on YouTube I don’t want or need to leave YouTube to find anything.
Part of that battle is how hard it is to find anything on this site beyond a couple of days in tags. If you are stuck searching stuff on the Steemit end you will go from days old to months with a whole lot of stuff missing. The 7 day cycle is something that needs to be broken as well.
You also have endless scrolling which really bogs things down as well after a while. If I go manual hunting down the gaming tag maybe I’ll make it to day 4 before I give up as it struggles to keep loading more and more in.
Perhaps that is in part why steempeak or whatever that one site is has curator feeds. Sadly the best way of finding anything on steem is using google or something like steemlookup unless you have the skillset and access to quarry more directly.
That needs to change and I’ve seen people talk about they can never find content they want to consume. The person consuming does not care about our 7 day window. Yet the content creators are.
I’ve had people in my community tell me they just read and watch videos in our upvote feed in discord. They just don’t have time to try and find anything they enjoy otherwise. To much for them to have to filter though.
this is very interesting feedback and I agree. when you are on youtube there is no need to leave.
the search problem is an issue, I have also heard the same from other curators. and you are right, the normal consumer does not care about the 7 days window, but when the normal consumer comes to steem, they are sucked into the ...curate within 7 days or you don't earn. Money comes into it and normal content curation goes out the window.
we really have a long way to go on steem to make it 'consumer friendly'