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It does feel like a chor more than anything scrolling through the feed on steemit

I kind of like @dnews response to Kenans video. He essentially said if you're not earning enough to make it worth creating longform content, then don't. He said spend as much time on here as you would with any other hobby and for your money go find another area to provide value that people will pay you better for.

Now that doesn't solve the problem of shitty content making money and good content not making the money and in some ways it further exacerbates the problem in that everyon's just gonna crank out fast shitty content, but in terms of us all keeping our sanity I think that makes a lot of sense. Why waste time effort and take on needless frustration dumping a lot of time into something that doesn't return anything.

I totally agree with you. Too long to give a fuck. Dropped after 2'.
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Bro, no ones got time for this bullshit video. Take this shit somewhere else.

Good video though. Watched the whole thing and yes, I get more entertainment from YouTube.

well fuck me sideways...you could be my brother from another mother. Great video, you said what many are thinking, me included. I'm a big believer in a well produced and crafted rant. It is like you say though, no one gives a fuck. I listened to this whole fucking thing, TWICE! To be honest, the first time I made it through halfway and fell asleep at my computer desk... hey, it was a long day and I'm old, I get tired! Anyway, after a two hour power nap I listened again, this time to the whole thing. You make some valid points, especially about content. I don't give two fucks for most of the content here, especially all the crap about crypto... hell everyday there seems to be some new fucking form of crypto sprouting up.
I agree with you about there should be more ways to interact with other people, right on site. For a social network, it isn't too fucking sociallable. I also happen to love YouTube, I spend most nights watching vids there while my wife is watching the idiot box. She often gets pissed off at me cause I'm laughing my ass off at some comedian I'm watching and she can't hear the TV!
Anyway, liked your rant, sorry for the long ass comment!

Yep in agree with the making quality long videos vs short snappy videos. When I first joined steemit I thought it would be like YouTube and I made some nice long good quality videos that didn’t not get any notice - full HD, documentary, etc.
I was discouraged and went to doing very simple low quality video instead to experiment..
these days I do dtube snaps and just chatter in the comment section. Once in a while I still want to create those nice videos but I don’t expect people will watch it through.. it’s more for me and the friends I have on the platform that I’ve made that care.
It’s such a different experience and way to create compared to YouTube
Thanks for the food for thought!

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I love documentaries, can you link me to your work

I did a “mini documentary” one ages ago (in my first two months)and uploaded to dtube and got nothing and my husband said dtube wasn’t ready for it, it was too heavy.. I haven’t uploaded it to YouTube yet.. I was thinking to and then linking it back to steemit now that I have more followers.
I haven’t done any more of those serious types since I think..

Besides my latest vlog about my depressing week maybe.

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Great video and I resteemed it! I want to see pictures of your toes everyday.....I think you would make $100 / post if you did that.

There certainly is very little content on here that could go viral anywhere else on the Internet. I blame a lot of it on Steemit INC and their decisions to be honest with you. For one they screwed up the initial distribution but in times when they have had a chance to fix it they haven't.

Then like you said for people to go to all these different websites to have different features becomes silly. Most users aren't going to be jumping around being on 4 or 5 websites / apps that don't have congruent branding to post on what they feel is one website.

Then the trending page has never been any sort of reflection of actual trending content. That is 100% Steemit INCs fault because they could have kept people guessing with what was going to be served up there by doing combintations of posts with engaging users, amount of upvotes, reputation, stake weight of the different votes, views......etc to actually display those up there. People will still try to game it but it wouldn't be easy to fake it. Just having it be stake weight is so stupid. That is why the bid bots got out of control.

Is youtube really a social network though? 'S mostly just a video archive for me. Most of the folks I watch there don't seem to get much profit from it either and decent bigger channels all run on sponsorship deals of their own... but that bit is besides the point -- many platforms tried to take on Youtube/Twitch/Linked-In on their turf and failed. Sure to have even mild success on STEEM you have to be about Crypto at least a little bit -- see artists that share their drawing/drawing processes here and at the same time sell works on Etherum auction sites

But yes, all of STEEM's current interfaces were not designed for social interactions as much as simple blogging. No re-steem with comment, no re-steeming of comments themselves no advanced feed filtering options, PM's through memos instead of a private chat like you mentioned...
It's possible to go on a bold venture to design a UI that could handle those features, but without some clever workarounds it would probably be completely incomparable with steemit. the worst and still most popular STEEM interface.

You bring up some good points. Youtube first and foremost is a search engine, second it's a video hosting platform but thirdly it is a community. there's so much more engagement on youtube in the comments section, there's a community tab for people to interact with their audience, they actaully recently got rid of messaging but there was a messaging feature up until recently. People actually go to youtube for education as well as pure entertainment. Most of us IMHO come here to play the game, not because we truly enjoy the platform unless you enjoy that game aspect of it but I'm not comming to steemit to watch something for purely entertainment value or to necessarily learn a how to type skill.

I agree it's incredibly hard to make a video platform, I've seen vidme and many other fail and fall by the wayside.

You mention how Steemit wasn't built to be a social network, your completely right but that said its kinda fucked up how that's what we've made it. Being early adopters and because this is open source and decentralized we all have kind of a voice in terms of what this site is, what type of site it is and we've turned it into a social networking site as opposed to a content site. The only way to earn here is to create and rewards aren't really based onwhat you create just that your creating something which gives no incentive to creating quality content which leaves us all just playing the game. I see lot sof people on here who I like personally but who's accounts have turned into posting stupid pictures or google image pictures several times per hour, there's no quality in that. There's no community in that.

We essentially have a blogging platform that rewards social connectivity, those two things dont jive. Either the entire platform needs to be changed into more of a facebook type format where we can all make friends and connect or we need to actually start rewarding quality content.

It's probably a widely recognized fact by now that #steemit, the basic template that it is, won't change. Our next big hope is what @ned himself is cooking up with that project Destiny of his, the one for "on boarding casual Joes/Janes" you know. Maybe that project includes the said better interface, with actual social sharing functions?

The second best option, but unfortunately a very remote possibility right now -- an independent dev team designing a revolutionary new interface, possibly through a #utopian-io cooperative process. Except so far interface development project have been about individualistic competition, which is not a bad thing, but when most dare not deviate too much from steemit's template (the specialized one's that tried, like Musing, dlike, SteemHunt are very-narrowly focused and barren of functionality) lest they lose out on comparability, where not revolutionizing as much as iterating on the same thing.

As for "playing the game", you are a businessman, so I suppose you see the optimal "earning" opportunities on STEEM and that "game" (along with paid crypto promotion campaigns) does seem to be the best way to "earn a living" on STEEM right now? I've not come here to earn though, so I'm a bit more free to mess about with the platform in "unproductive" ways. That said I do want to see the platform grow and will direct my own efforts there, limited as they are.

I don't really keep up with the inner workings of Steemit so it's good to hear maybe there's some hope and there's some development going on. One thing I will say that I enjoy about this platform is it's kind of an anything goes platoform. While I enjoy talking about Entrepreneurship and business I'm not lockedin to talking about those topics

Well If you're interested in occasional re-steems about updates on STEEM's inner working or new interaction tools, you can see those in my feed. Some stuff I re-steem is a bit on the technical side or has to do with art tools and contests, but I try to keep up with and track down generally useful stuff as well:

How about voicing your concerns to @ned directly, in this Q&A
Or, have you heard about dclick, STEEM-based AdSense -- additional monetization for your posts?

That kind of stuff.

I'm definitely gonna check out a lot of the stuff you've mentioned, however I do think that is part and parcel of the problem, and maybe it's just how Steemit is built, again that type of stuff is way over my head but your casual social media user needs things simple, easy and dumbed down. The fact I have to hop around to 6 sites to interact with one site, quite frankly I'm too lazy to do it and it just seems like too much dedication to the platform to have to learn and keep up with all this stuff. The stuff you mentioned, especially the Dclick interests me so I will look into it but that's kinda why I havn't gotten more involved and also what hinders adoption

Yes- steem needs it’s own discord- my husband has been saying to me for a while why steemit goes to discord and why not develop their own discord because they need a group chat and pm feature. Everyone goes to discord cos steemit is lacking in this - then everyone is engaging on discord instead of steemit.

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I haven’t watched the video yet, but I think I agree with your points. Well said, bro!

Oh yeah and btw, you mentioned in your video that your eye was puffy. You think maybe while you were sleeping, something bit you or you had an allergic reaction. I've had the same thing happen to me a few times. In fact, it happened on the same day I recorded that video and by the time I recorded it, the effects were about 95% gone. I thought the exact same thing as you. One of my students saw my eye and he said it has to do with sleeping on your side against something hard (like your arm or something) and then when you stay in that position, it constricts a nerve around the eye and makes it swell up like that. He might be right.

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