There are some awesome art curations on reddit! I wish there was something similar on Steem
The focus on Steem is very different than that of reddit. Here, people talk a lot about bloggers, about creation, about originality, and there is a heavy emphasis on the fight against plagiarism.
Personally, though, I love to browse reddit and other social networks just to see what people share. My favourite website for art is Artstation. It's like a massive art gallery where authors go to post what they do. It would be cool to have that on Steem, but it may take a while.
However, something that I also want to be able to do is to share my awesome finds from Artstation. I spend a few hours every week looking through the new artworks, finding artists that I like, etc., and sometimes I also browse reddit's r/ImaginaryBestOf and the other subreddits of the ImaginaryNetwork, where people post their favourite finds from Artstation and Deviantart (but mostly, by far, from Artstation).
On reddit, I have to thank the user Lol33ta for being the most dedicated moderator/curator/content aggregator that I have ever seen. He/she has been posting in the network's subs for years and is the one that runs r/ImaginaryBestOf.
There is so much art on Artstation that it would be very hard, without the help of this moderator and the dozens of curators that populate the network, to find the beautiful art that I get to enjoy every day of my life without much effort. Something that I also love to do is going into the profile pages of the authors whose artworks I like the most, and exploring their tastes, studying their styles and sharing their names in other places if I feel like they will be appreciated.
However, a point that I agree with and that I will not try to dispute is that the content that needs the most curation right now, at least from our side of things, is the content that is published on the Steem blockchain! Steem is too disorganised and severely lacks proper organisation of content. It falls on everyone's hands to organise the content by topics and to share the most important things, the most valuable content. Many excellent posts are lost every day. I have found amazing authors that have 0 genuine votes and comments. I don't want to see them die, but at the same time, it is very hard for me to find them.
And at the same time, I also see a philosophical blockage that is trying to enforce a view that Steem is only for original content and the curation of such. Memes are bashed as low effort and I have not seen anyone sharing links and content found elsewhere just for the sake of the content. I have seen, however, a dApp that focuses on that, but I can't remember its name.
Steem is not the only place where good things can be made, and something that keeps many people away from here is the fact that they are accustomed to the posting style of other websites such as 4chan and reddit where they can write whatever they want, or share whatever they want, without needing to say anything else. In there, there is no need to write long texts describing your intent in order to justify your sharing of a link.
I think that this is blocking a whole community that could be here sharing things. Do we want that? Certainly, some people would be against this idea. But personally, until someone gives me a convincing argument against, I'm all for sharing things that we like. It's not what defines Steem right now, but nothing says it can't become more of a social network in that sense in the future.
Steem is not a blogging platform. I'm not sure what it is, but I like to stay open for new definitions of whatever peopl want to do with the blockchain that is good for the internet community.
I think the dapp you are thinking about is Dlike, where you can share what you like. You can actually curate other people's stuff, remember when you take 1 work from someone else, its plagiarism but if you take 10 and bundle them together, its a curation post :^)
I propose you taking pieces of art you enjoy, saving the name of the authors, post them here and show the post to them on their platform and show them that they can earn if they share their stuff here and participate, might even be a nice way to bring new users.
Doesn't look like the posts receive many upvotes on dlike, but it is what it is. Still, many dApps are shunned, like dMania and similar, Zappl and all the memes and short formats. Steepshot gets a bit of acceptance because it encourages original photography, but even then, there are curation and upvote services that refuse to promote Steepshot posts due to the "low effort".
I think that the change has to come from the philosophy and that a dApp won't bring this change by itself. People need to realise somehow that the self-centeredness is not helping us and that some outreach can be good to make our stakes grow.
Upvoted.
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