I made three new discoveries about 3speak.online today which make it far more attractive as a YouTube alternative and decided to make a post to tell everyone. I don’t know if this is common knowledge already but I hadn’t noticed so I’m sure there are others like me.
#1 Mobile friendly
I post on 3speak occasionally but always using my PC because the videos I took with my phone didn’t seem to be compatible. I keep up with @theycallmedan's posts from time to time but I had been really busy promoting Hive Cross Culture so I didn't know how the platform has changed. I thought I’d check today and see if I could upload using mobile. I could without any problems!
In the process I noticed two more things...
#2 Hive account no longer required for 3speak
Obviously we want everyone to sign up for Hive but this makes it really easy for people who find the learning curve of Hive too difficult and are not ready to use things like Hivesigner and keys. Now you can make a 3speak account with your email address and link it to your Hive account.
People who are mostly interested in video content can sign up without much confusion, the sign up process is almost instant. Then they can sign up for Hive when they are ready, and they are likely to when they see videos about it and when they learn about www.hiveonboard.com (thanks @stellabelle!) which already makes making a hive account soooo much easier. This is all huge for adoption.
#3 Community Integration
In the past I found only certain communities were available with 3speak but now you can type any communities name and post there. That’s great for many communities including the one I’m working on Hive Cross Culture. Sharing culture and practicing language is something many people will want To use video for. This is such great news for our community.
In fact I have a great idea for a promotional contest to get people on 3speak. If anyone could help me get in touch with @theycallmedan it would be greatly appreciated, he seems quite busy these days.
Lastly, a short jam
To test out 3speak on mobile I uploaded my first jam on electric guitar. I've always played acoustic but I found myself a super cheap used electric, delay and drive pedal so I've been playing around. I’ll but uploading a lot more music now that I can use my phone!
▶️ 3Speak
Having fun being played by the music there?
So have they chucked a dtube and popped to their own chain? Or just being like a "normal" video hosting site with hive integration?
The bloody autoplay is doing my head in XD
Ease of adoption is not a bad thing though.
I think they've had their own coin for a while built on hive. It seems they are trying to be both a gateway for hive with posts able to opt in to being on chain or off based on whether you link accounts
Nice man, really cool sound. I dig.
I haven’t heard your music in a while, I kind of forgot that thats how I met you in the first place :)
I'm gonna try and post more. I'm not as active as you though, you are a beast!
nice to see you again!
OK. This is timely @whatamidoing,
I'm thinking about making videos at least once a week about cross cultural topics kind of like the blog entry but with talking. At the same time it is getting hot and I don't want to work too hard. This morning I live streamed my commute on Instagram. It was super easy. I liked that function. No if 3speak is on my cellphone it won't be much longer before we could livestream on it. But that is off the subject. What I'm debating in my head is should I go ahead and make videos about cross culture and language?
By the way, that was a relaxing riff.
Oh, What am I doing?
Why not!? Those videos do fantastic on YouTube. Soon I want to organize a campaign to bring those people over to 3speak and hive. You could be doing it before anyone and if you get decent payout it will encourage them to want to join even more. The reason I haven't done this is I was more excited about sharing my music and writing and essays for a long time but now I realize how suited I am for this cross culture thing so maybe I'll do it too.
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