The many faces of Steemit

I had this idea of an article in my head. It was going to be called The three faces of Steemit. When I started researching this, it turns out three wasn't enough!

We all know Steemit.com. Our lovely site, based on the Steem blockchain, that displays all of our blog posts and lets us upvote and comment on those of others.

A while ago though, busy.org made some noise. Based on the same Steem blockchain, it also displays all of our blog posts and lets us upvote and comment on those of others. However, in the case of Busy, you place a more well-known like. And instead of Resteeming, you Reblog. Busy also offers a private chat option, which is something people miss on the Steemit platform.

All in all, I'd say Busy would be an easier transition for people who come here from other social media sites, like Facebook. Personally, I'm sticking with Steemit, because it was where I started and I'm used to it.

Then, I heard there was a third option to view the steem blockchain. I think it was more optimized for phone access. I forgot about the name of this one, so if anyone recalls it, could you please tell me in a comment?

Anyway, I thought I'd write about these three. However, when I checked our App Center, I found out there are even more sites based on the Steem blockchain!

Oneplace shows us our blog posts aswell. In the top-right corner, you can switched to Golos (a Russian version of Steemit). From what I'm seeing so far though, Oneplace is only a Steemit frontpage. As soon as you click on an article or a member's name, you're redirected to Steemit.com.

The App Center also shows an app called Steempress, but it's not working for me, so I can't tell you about this one.

The last one I noticed was Mapala. This site states the following:

This is an experimental version of travel community, that pays money to authors for their articles. We have developed an up to date version that will be p2p tourism portal, based on 3 blockchains.

This looks to be an interesting way of using our travel blogs to help other people find tips for their future travels.

So, we have multiple sites that share our blogs with the world. They all look to have their own focus and are not all finished products yet. I think Busy is a great site to make Steemit seem less 'scary' to start with. What I worry about though, is mainly the difference in features.

What if someone uses Busy and uses the private chat option to connect with members? People who stick with the Steemit website will not know they have private messages waiting for them back on Busy.

The other thing I worry about it how it may confuse people. It might not be so bad though, because people who just started here will not know about the different sites based on the same blockchain. They are just joining this new place called Steemit, which can give them crypto for their participation.

If my above thought is the case now, maybe Steemit should aspire to be a bit more like Busy in the user friendliness department? Clean up the looks a bit and add a chat feature?

• What are your thoughts on this?
• Did I miss any sites that are also based on the Steem blockchain?
• Which one of these do you use mainly? Steemit or Busy?

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