RE: Steemit Will Soon Become Intolerable
Prescient prediction. Certainly plausible.
The feed itself has certain choices baked into it which are not fit for purpose in a post-blog (I'll use this instead of post-Dan 😝) Steem world.
One of the things that Facebook, Twitter and so on get a lot of criticism for is their opaque feed algorithms. We have the other end of the scale here, totally unfiltered and unfilterable streams. That needs to change.
It's been well over a year since I advocated this, I don't have the motivation right now to find those posts but they're there. Ironically if there were a good search function it would be easy but we've got what we've got!
Anyway, yes, the days of using the vanilla feed are over, over already I would argue. In ever conversation I have with a large stakeholder the idea of Steem as blogging platform is dead to them. This matters. I haven't really been engaged with it either of late. You know I always say to myself every week that I'll write this or that but then I just put that time into writing a few comments (good ones too, probably enough for a blog but then you'd never know because of the way data is aggregated, that could be improved too) and working on some apps for Steem. Releases hopefully forthcoming, so I'm one of those guys making things that will further dilute the feed unfortunately.
I'd love to hear more if you wanted to spend the time to dig a bit deeper for solutions, or ways to evolve with the changes.
Actually, I’m a big fan of that. I’m looking forward to the times ahead of us, the upcoming HF20 definitely motivates me. That much that theSteemObserver is coming back.
So... I’ld love to hear more about those new apps which may further dilute the feed. I’m the person who always said ‘Steemit isn’t what you think it is... and that’s a good thing’. I’m much more on Discord though nowadays.
Yet, I think show/exclude apps will be the first thing we will see on the ‘everything bucket’ interface as the data is available on BC level and such filters are rather easy to implement. Beyond that?
Don’t sweat it. No, seriously, don’t. Many will just do their daily round of apps and it will be up to those apps to provide an experience. To use @tarazkp’s term for the feed... the ghetto.
That only ever was tenable a position/platform with n^2. Without that aspect it’s philanthropy and more than that, support without any real transaction. Which gives us merely social capital.
If it doesn’t work for Ev, with much higher shopping window content quality on Medium, why would large stakeholders think that it would work here. Content without transaction doesn’t work and only very few can capitalize on social capital profile building.
There is... AskSteem. It’s an active bang! on DuckDuckGo already. Just use
!steembefore your query. But I’m not sure about the query features.