Discoverability and surfacing are terrible on Steemit.
Communities don't really exist.
The tag system is poorly implemented and has no way to actually create remembered slices through the content nor a way to create compound slices through the content.
Effectively, there aren't any tools to manage the experience of a social media networking site that have been developed over the last 10 years which made social media networking sites big. The basics are still missing.
It is also true that quite a lot of the system seems to be deliberately obfuscated and made more complicated than it has to be which makes everything else that much worse for a new user.
Better ways to explore the content would help everyone, but not least newcomers to the platform who are trying to get traction and looking for a niche that they both enjoy and which works for them. Everything that stands in the way of people on the platform being able to find content that they like keeps the platform from growing.
Let's not forget that:
Discoverability and surfacing are terrible on Steemit.
Communities don't really exist.
The tag system is poorly implemented and has no way to actually create remembered slices through the content nor a way to create compound slices through the content.
Effectively, there aren't any tools to manage the experience of a social media networking site that have been developed over the last 10 years which made social media networking sites big. The basics are still missing.
It is also true that quite a lot of the system seems to be deliberately obfuscated and made more complicated than it has to be which makes everything else that much worse for a new user.
Better ways to explore the content would help everyone, but not least newcomers to the platform who are trying to get traction and looking for a niche that they both enjoy and which works for them. Everything that stands in the way of people on the platform being able to find content that they like keeps the platform from growing.
I agree with you 100% on this. This has been brought up many times, yet nothing has been done.