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RE: SteemDAO: the developmental gateway to Web 3.0
Thank you for writing this excellent post.
We appreciate you for your clear insights and the effort you have shown over the years in promoting/explaining/building the Steem blockchain. As you will agree with me the correct use of tags is an important part of this. With the rise of tribes, the correct use of tags has become even more important, since tribes value their own trending pages and want to make them the best they can be.
In that perspective i would like to ask you if you feel this post should really be tagged with "photography". The PhotoStreem curator team for one, feels that it should not. We are looking forward to many more of your post, also on our tribe when the content fits our platform.
I am glad that you are taking the time to police your network. However also for future reference, I only use my own images and always have which means, they are my photographs. One of the issues that the tribes are going to face is trying to make claims on generic labels like "photography" "investing" or "technology". It would be different if the tag I had used was a frontend specific tag like "creativecoin" Generic tags are generic tags.
For marketing purposes the generic tags work well at this point because each tribe can pull in a lot more content to fill the feeds, but in the future each will need market differentiation and the generic tags are not suitable for this purpose. What I am hoping is that the tribes will offer unique experiences and specific tags for purposes that empower their users as there is a lot of benefits and potential in positioning within the marketplace. :)
Thanks for your response.
It is good to know that you always use your own images. I will pass that information on to our curator team, so that for future references, we are clear on that.
Your remark that tribes claim generic tags is one that is heard more often and i'd like to take this opportunity to adress that. No tribe has exclusive rights on tags. Everybody who wants to start a tribe can link the same tag. There could be hundreds of tribes linking the "photography" or "technology" tag and users who would post using these tags would earn hundreds of different tokens on their posts, next to their earned steem. In my opinion tribes add value to the tags they link to, as users earn additional tokens and are likely to get more interaction on their posts.
Tribes empower communities in a way that Steemit has never been able to do. I have heard from many users that our tribe has given them a sense of enthousiasm back, that they had lost somewhere on the way in Steemit. There is much more interaction, teams and projects are formed and the quality of content on tribes exceeds that on Steemit in fold. Just compare our trending page to the photography trending page on Steemit.
Lastly i believe tribes are the perfect tool to bring new users into steemit, as they can find communities with shared interests and likeminded people there. As with everything in life, some tribes will stand out and others will fail.
As we are a photography tribe (with a curator team made up off established Steem photographers) the "photography" tag is our core and we strive to make it all it can be.
I completely agree with what you have said I am glad that there has been a push into the separation of content and theme and I think that for many, it has breathed new life into their creative pursuits. I am looking forward to see how far it can go.
Out of curiosity, have you a specific tag for the frontend? I am yet to login there at all and I have used the photography tag on probably 80 percent of my posts, which means thousands of times over the last 2+ years. I actually didn't know of the tribe until I started seeing a token appear in Steempeak.
We have linked the relevant photography tags, so on our website it's simple to flip between for example foodphotography, monomad, animalphotography, etc. Please come and have a look on photostreem
And feel free to drop by our discord as well: https://discord.gg/EQz9Ex
We'd love to talk with you and exchange ideas.
Excellent, thanks for the links :)