Communities and SMTs will likely change everything!
I am very excited about the upcoming developments for Steem
First we have the communities feature.
A feature that I think is possibly the most important development steem has ever had.
It will literally change everything about the way steem operates.
To understand a little why I say that, here is a quote from @roadscape, the main developer working on communities:
"Content discovery and the ability for users to organize go hand-in-hand. Without the ability to organize, groups are working against the grain. Without content discovery, curation is more difficult than it needs to be. This leads to automation but the data is still noisy. Hive Communities will allow us to completely reimagine how we use the platform, and give everyone a voice."
People complain about quality content not getting rewarded and about how new users have such a difficult time being seen. Well, communities will hep with both of those, possibly in a massive way.
There will also be the ability for moderation within each community which will further help the higher quality content within each community to be seen.
Another interesting feature will be the ability to make communities private. Right now everything is one giant community with a shared reward pool and there is no ability to privatize any specific community.
This ability can be very important going forward, especially as it relates to SMTs.
Overall, helping like-minded people connect with each other easier will turn steem applications more into social networking sites as opposed to being purely content sites, which will likely be a big win in terms of future growth.
More about communities can be found in the recent post from the @steem.marketing account:
The next important development taking place are SMTs
SMTs will give each community, business, brand, etc etc the ability to tokenize whatever they want.
This is especially important as it relates to communities.
With posts being paid out in steem, anyone can come along and do a drive by flagging of a post they perhaps don't agree with the rewards on. Which that part won't change, but now each community can have their own token to reward users as well.
That means that even if there were some steem flag wars going on, those wars would not be able to impact the rewards within that specific community.
This new token will also be extremely important as it relates to distribution.
A big part of the problem with building on steem currently is the distribution.
With a new token, the creator can decide how he wants the distribution of his/her token set up and how he wants it to function going forward.
The distribution will be very important for creating and maintaining value with a new token.
(Source: https://steemit.com/steem/@dannyzen/steem-update-communities-are-coming)
Some final thoughts:
Communities will change just about everything on here.
SMTs will be crucial to making communities thrive.
The vast majority of these SMTs will not have value, but the ones that are set up well, have decent economics, and become popular will have value and that value will not be able to be influenced by the current distribution of stake on steem.
Which further helps decentralize the value drivers for the entire steem ecosystem.
Overall, Communities combined with SMTs are a very bullish development for steem in my opinion.
Now I just wish I could fast forward 6 months so they would be live and functioning already. :)
Stay informed my friends.
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wonder i they will change price too ;)
That sure would be nice!
Waiting. Patiently. 😎
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That’s what we have now with the S-E Tribes, don’t we?
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Similar, but this will be slightly different.
I wonder about the mechanics of how this will be done. If the current tags of #gardening or #football or #canada evolve into gardening and football and canada Communities, how will it be decided who gets to moderate those communities? Stake-based voting based on SP? Stake-based voting based on SMT’s for the specific Communities? Some other system?
Anyone will be able to create a community. If you create one, people can join if they're interested in the discussions in it.
The owner of the community gets to pick who the moderators are.
So if anyone can do it, does that mean that the rights to a specifically named community that is potentially extremely popular would be on a first-come, first-served basis?
The accounts will use NCIs (Numerical Community Identifiers) where the community account will be named, for example
hive-10001.The community's display name will be an attribute set in settings. That's where the name will be set.
You can read more on the technical details here, under the section Registration.
That is a good question and possibly. I foresee some creative names if the basic ones get snatched up quickly. Stuff like the krypt0 community... etc.
I see drama ahead...
The SMT for should would either represent evolution or revolution or both of them in the same time. Getting this back on track and being close to get released, there still might be a bright future for STEEMIT.
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Cool, thanks!
SMTs will be a game changer for Steem - I have always said this. SMTs will make ICOs possible on Steem. If we knew what ICOs did to the value of Ether, then we'll learn to appreciate SMTs. Cheers!
That is the hope.
for some, communities are already here 😄😄😂
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I will believe when I will see it in action. We have that already with steem-engine.
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