Steemit platform is picking up steam, no pun intended, and I'm seeing lots of posts that should receive more exposure get burried under the faster and faster scrolling "new" tab: the more people post, the faster their post gets lost in the blockchain with no to zero chance of reaching their desired audience.
My personal upvote does little to no difference, and nobody should make a habbit of scanning the "new" for every new submitted post.
The promoted thing doesn't do much either, me and my friends rarely check it anymore.
Point is, the community is growing and various stuff gets mangled together. This is where groups and pages of certain interests come into play. I see no such feature yet. All i see are tags.
Tag based grouping ain't really a thing since I can't follow tags. Even if i could, say "life" for instance, there's just too many posts for any one individual to keep up with.
Let's say I am personally interested in IT/tech (which I am, but that's besides the point). It'd be nice to have certain groups like "Tech guides/howtos, ZeroDayNewz etc" that I could follow and have on my homepage.
I'm not saying : "Copy Facebook!"
I'm saying: It's too damn chaotic and some people including myself actually put passion and work into writing something of value only to see it lost in the sweeping wind of new submissions. Having public or private groups where to post and engage with the community is the real deal.
By the way, I don't really know what's up with that, but the only post that got me some revenue was the first one I posted after introducing myself. Upvoted 165 times and commented 0 times. ZERO COMMS. WHAT ? And paid 45$. Seems fishy to me.
Anyway, can I get a discussion ? Can I get engagement ? OR do i really speak to the wall ? Are bots the only ones that interact with my posts ?
As a sidenote: I have nothing against you posting shots of your morning face, breakfast and walk in the park and getting hundreds of dollars of sbds for it. I do have a problem when articles written on specific technical or social issues that took years to research and/or perfect with hands-on experience are treated with indifference and even you, the one taking pics on your morning walk, stand to benefit from having compartmentalized interest-driven subject categories.
Here is kawaii neko potato :
