RE: Narrative's First Rewards Payout: Bigger Than Steemit
I need to find the time to look in to PALnet as I'm in the PAL discord and had a few notifications about it. It seems to have replaced their upvote service so another thing to try and get my head around in and amongst travelling lol!
I take your point about responsive staff, it's true though. There have been plenty of suggestions from users here on steem but does seem to be slow to respond. I just put it down to "it's complicated tech" but can't help but feel there's a bit more at play.
Yes I haven't heard from Quillington for a while. Last outburst was about MEOS/voice launch which turned out to be just an announcement that they were going to launch a social media platform on EOS. Like noone saw that coming! I put my name in for the beta to see what's going on but not heard anything. Just all seems like "could be something big" is all that's needed to build hype and hopes via word of mouth.
The whole cross posting thing is another philosophy I can't get my head around. Sure, you want to get your content spread far and wide but cross posting the same content from your website to steem then to whaleshares then to Trybe, narrative, voice... Is that what these new competitor platforms want to have happen - "post your steem articles here as well"? It just seems like they are trying hard to separate themselves but still need to be tied in to steem. Baffling.
I may check narrative out when I get back from travelling and see if the interface has changed and made more efficient, but the feeling of being spread too thin got overwhelming which is why I just picked one that I've used the longest/first and that's steem.
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There's definitely more at play.
https://voice.com/
I think cross-posting is more user-led than platform-led. Most would rather see original content, but if you are too busy for original content, an easy way to start is with content you've already created. You're a musician. If you want to promote your music to new audiences, are you going to write original music for every platform? What music artist does that? They write enough new songs to record new albums then promote that album by putting on shows, concerts, etc., moving from town to town performing the same act over and over again for different audiences. Same concept. Would you want to do that all the time? Probably not, but it's a good way to get old material in front of a new audience, then you can hit them with "exclusives" and original content.
For testing the platform, I recommend using the least painful approach possible. If it's cross-posting, fine. If not, try something else. You're just looking to see if your audience is there. And, by the way, Independent Music is the No. 1 niche on Narrative.
For me, it's just so time consuming to write posts for Steemit then promote them on Discord. On Narrative, and other platforms, the social is baked into the platform. It takes less time to be interactive. This is one of the downsides to Steemit for me.
That's what I do with dsound and that's been good enough for me and have actually had more responses there than any other platform.
I've filled that form out for Voice for beta access already but not heard back other than they received my request.
Regarding new audiences and posts etc, I get what you're saying. But are there really enough people who are using these new platforms that are going to make a difference to listener "hits" vs being able to get on to a big playlist on Spotify for example? Just seems like more fragmentation of an otherwise small userbase.
When I am back in civilisation and with my laptop and going full force again on blogging, I'll see how Narrative has changed and if it's worth to post more on there.
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At this early stage, there may not be enough of a user base for you. I guess that's something you have to figure out for yourself. I understand if it is the case.
For me, all it seems to be at the moment are just the same people on different platforms as I see a lot of the same faces around and it makes me wonder why not just stick with one? That's where I got to and am at now.
I'm sure there will be many twists and turns yet but I have found steem and dsound to be better for me out of what I have tried and like you say, with palnet, it looks like exciting times ahead.
Sorry for the passionate rant here, I am genuinely happy you're finding success on Narrative, I hope it continues and you profit from your efforts there. I guess it does come down to priorities and what's more important.
For me, music has always been a hobby and I like having it that way. Working a job and having the creative time to make music and upload it is a lifestyle I'm not against but I know others are trying to carve a life for themselves with it so maybe they'd be more inclined to join narrative if they want these instant payout amounts. Nonetheless, I shared your blog as it's great information (as always from you).
Take it easy PHC brother 🙏
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Yeah, there is a lot of cross over, but I also see many Steemians abandoning ship and jumping over to Narrative. I had one tell me the other day they were cashing out their STEEM and putting it into Narrative. I don't know if that's wise, but that was his approach, and he'd built up quite a following on Steemit and has a lot of STEEM.
I think there will be a shake down at some point and the best platforms will rise to the top. Until then, it's hunker down time for content creators.
Peace, Abundance, Love ....
Hmm I wouldn't recommend cashing everything out but up to him really!
I've not heard of that "hunker down time" expression! What's that one mean? Haha
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You've never heard "hunker down?" lol
Let Wordnik explain it.
Ah OK it's an American saying according to my Google searches. No one has said that in the UK in my experience yet so now I know haha
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@nickyhavey,
Hey Nicky.
In the two weeks since the "Voice" (MEOS) launch, a lot more details have been seeping out. It sounds like they ARE going to make the Voice Token tradeable. Why the confusion? They seem to be in a "quasi-quiet period" ... I think that their law firm, Holland & Knight (Top Notch, used to be mine when I managed hedge funds) is working with the SEC to approve an "internal exchange model" for the token.
I will write a new post when I get a bit more clarity.
Quill
@quillfire
And that's the issue. Improper launch, confusion, delays... Shouldn't this stuff have been clarified already or is it just a case of, "We gotta do something, quick push out any old shit, give them something, anything"?
Is this really going to get the masses on board?
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