It’s true much of focus is inwards, but in recent months there’s definitely been an increase in promotion of content on Twitter. PoSH definitely had a solid impact on the sharing behavior of the community.
In fact, for a long time it’s been a pet peeve of mine and I’ve often summarized it as following:
- Blogger: spams all social networks with link of new content. Repeats again some days later for same link.
- Steemian: spams as many discord groups and DMs after publishing post. Repeats next day with new post.
That sharing is important, provided those folks don't have the same followings as they do here. It works far better when random consumers start doing the random sharing. That's what made something like Youtube a wild success.
I used to use a platform called Stumbleupon. I'd upload one link, get hundreds of outside views daily. That platform died, and we no longer have an accurate view counter. I don't have a large following on twitter so sharing there would be pointless for me. The average consumers sharing randomly is how things go viral. I'd suggest making those share buttons much larger; more pronounced. Even converting them so they double as a vote button would be interesting.
One of the first things which generated true action on YouTube was YT Replies. That allowed creators to tap in to each other’s network.
SU was gold, an evergreen for a lot as well. It’s sorely missed. I’ve had posts which have earned 2-3 million views or more from SU. Much of that spread over months, years even. Sadly enough it doesn’t seem like Mix is gaining any traction whatsoever at all.
One of best things with SU was that it was an external audience, which is biggest current problem with PoSH (many created new accounts and many liking/retweeting are hivers too). But it is an important “social signal” for Google.
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I think Mix is the one I looked into as a replacement and didn't get far; lost interest. I might go back to it, or continue looking for other options, if they exist. I'm sure by now some of my work would have hundreds of thousands of views if SU was still going, since a few posts were gaining traction like crazy, while others not so much; but that's just how it goes.
That external audience is important. I helped boost confidence as well because early on I'd have a post with 18 cents, but 1000 views and growing daily.... LOL.
I knew that about POSH. It's not quite reaching out far enough, but it does help; I can respect it. I'd feel dirty using the tag though, with no real following on Twitter, so I don't touch it.
Mix is the replacement by the SU team. They bought SU back from eBay but somehow didn’t manage to fully revive it and decide to go for a more modern looking and platform agnostic solution. Then they killed SU. 🤦♂️
One of my earliest Steem Posts was me talking about SU. I actually convinced a few to get on there and share their work over. Others looked at me like I was crazy. Back then any other platform was the "enemy".
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