If you think the title up there is kind of contradictory, I agree. 🤣 But it'll make sense. Just keep reading...
A little earlier I finished listening to the recording of the Inleo Twitter Space held after a few weeks of hiatus because either Khal was sick or Mitch was busy doing something else. I'm pretty sure this is the first one after the first LeoAds payments. Not sure if that was the reason (I'm sure in part it was), but there were a couple of speakers (unlike the usual AMA format with Khal and Mitch), and you could sense they were all excited and looking forward to the future.
As a LEO stakeholder and a daily user of the platform, their excitement makes sense to me and I can relate to it. I hope it is as exciting for people who hear about Inleo for the first time in their lives, or those who know about the platform but don't use it yet, because I'm having trouble putting myself in their shoes and seeing things from their perspective. I hope Inleo is being seen as a platform that brings value to its stakeholders, users, and the ecosystem it is part of, and not like many other projects in the crypto space that are all talk and nothing to back it. Luckily, Inleo can easily show what they've been building.
Now, let's explain the title...
During the AMA, Khal made two major announcements with a direct impact on your LEO rewards, as a content creator. If you haven't seen what this is about yet, I suggest to keep reading.
The first announcement is that a post doesn't have to include a "leofinance" or "leo" tag to be distributed LEO from the LEO rewards pool. This is the "wider" part from the title. However, I got burned for a pretty long time in the past using a different tag and not earning any LEO tokens, so for now, I will keep using "leofinance", until it's clear this update is already in production and other people use it and it works as intended.
The second announcement is the one that makes the LEO rewards more focused. At the same time, going forward, only posts published from the Inleo platform will receive LEO rewards. So, it will no longer be possible to publish a post from a different front-end, use the "leofinance" tag, and be rewarded in LEO too.
I imagine the second announcement won't be to the liking of people who earned LEO this way.
If they argue that you can't possibly post from different front ends at the same time, if your post relates to different communities, and if each front end imposes this restriction it would become a problem, I believe we should look at this with different eyes.
Inleo is the first Hive interface that focuses on advertising revenue (and sharing it with stakeholders and content creators). I know some people don't like advertisers and therefore, ads, and I understand their perspective. I'm not fond of them either. But this is the model Inleo has chosen, and, as such, I believe they are within their right to distribute LEO rewards to users of their platform, who help them grow the advertising revenue, and at the same time, the value returned to Inleo users. That's why I believe it's a correct decision.
By the way, since Inleo has become a platform where all Hive content is displayed, that doesn't stop any post viewed and upvoted on Inleo from receiving rewards in HP, HBD, and any other tokens but LEO, if it was published from a different platform than Inleo. LEO rewards are the only ones affected by the platform where the post has been published. If you publish from Inleo, you may receive LEO rewards if you receive votes from LEO stakeholders, if you publish from a different front-end, even if LEO stakeholders vote on your posts, you won't receive LEO rewards.