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RE: How To Fix Steemit For Communities & Viral Engagement
This is an interesting idea because recognising the value of people within tightly-bound parts of the network is really important. If you look at the theory of social networks, though, they are composed of both tightly-bound core regions and the "bridges" that hold them together.
In a Steemit-like social network, the people holding together the core might be user A who posts great photos of bridges and user B who posts great memes about cats. The "bridge" in that social network might be User C, who sees a photo of a cat on a bridge, points User C to a new tag, controlling the flow of information and growing the network internally.
Both roles - uniqueness and diversity - are really important for the health of a social network.
Agreed. But it is difficult to think how algorithmically to separate those links between communities from one-size-fits-all popularity (that we have now) and following everything.
I am thinking that at least my proposal gives some power to those which have some uniqueness over the "everyone follows everything" crowd. So I think my proposal doesn't stop the diversity.