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Why Communities Are Such A Game Changer by midlet

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Why Communities Are Such A Game Changer
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As you've maybe or maybe not seen the Steemit beta site is back open where you can get a sneak peak of the future of Steemit.com. If you haven't seen it yet you can check it out here

https://beta.steemit.com/

The big new feature is something we've literally been waiting on for years and when @roadscape presented this at Steem Fest he said it was deceptively simple, but extremely powerful. As I've been playing around and thinking more about them I think I'm seeing what he meant.

This is an incredibly powerful feature. On the surface, you might look at this, think it's nice that it's grouping relevant content into one place and think that's it. It's only the beginning. 

The different communities are distinguished from one another with a tag "hive-xxxxxx". As we've seen with tribes, you can do some interesting things with a tag. You can run your own Condenser fork and only show the content with that tag. You can create your own totally unique website and only show content with that tag. Who's to say you couldn't take 5 tags and only show those. This means any community can be born on Steemit.com, but could then expand to their own frontend. Depending on the type of content, these frontends could look vastly different.

There could be one laid out like Twitter, one like Facebook, one like Youtube. Steem can become the social platform of many faces. No longer do we have to bicker about what Steem is, because finally it can be all the things we want it to be. It can be blogging, social networking, picture sharing, video sharing, streaming, whatever, and each of these communities can do their own thing without infringing on the user experience of other communities.

Oh, and what else did we learn from tribes that we can do with a tag? We can also distribute a token based on that tag. So whether you want to create a Steem Engine token or wait for an SMT, you can also associate a token with your community and distribute that to the people who post there. This again further empowers these Communities to not only have the choice of full independence from Steemit.com, but to also have their own tokens and economies. Combine that with their own frontends, their own revenue generation, we're looking at endless possibilities.

It doesn't stop there. We now rope in all the other benefits of blockchain and apply those at the community level. Your community is YOURS, no one can take it away from you. You can casually house it on Steemit.com or you could have you own site, app, token, economy, etc. It can stay small, or grow exponentially. There's nothing stopping anyone from growing a community of thousands of people and leveraging it for whatever that community wants. 

This is a little scatterbrained because my head is spinning with all the possibilities but here are a few things I could see happening.

- Template condenser forks or just totally custom sites for different layouts for sale like Wordpress templates.
- Mobile apps built around communities. (A twitter clone would be amazing)
- New innovative revenue sharing models within communities
- We could successfully do children's content. Might need a few features, like a everyone is muted by default option for a community. So it would effectively be invite only.
- People that are not a part of a community competing to build better frontends to get people to consume content on their site.

There's a lot that can be done, so start thinking big about the future. It's coming.

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Christmas came a little early this year and on the new Steemit beta site you can see we'll FINALLY have notifications! It's happening. We're growing up!

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@crypto.piotr ·
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Dear @midlet

I'm afraid I do not share your optimism. At least not at the moment. Communities would only make sense (from users point of view) if they would allow them to get more visibilty and exposure (resulting with more comments and higher rewards).

Right now I don't see any real value that communities would bring to common users. Hopefully it will change somehow.

Also I'm worried about the fact, that one post can be published only in one community. Which means that if there will be 3 communities related to similar topics (which happens very often) then author will have to decide which community he want to "tag".

I'm seriously afraid, that after initial hype - communities will become forgotten. Almost like most tribes have been forgotten already. Time will tell. 

ps.
Don't you think that communities should cost more than just 0,3$ ? (3 steem). I sometimes wonder why is it so cheap (suggesting little value and it's encouraging to create tons of random communities, which we cannot ever remove since it's a blockchain).

ps. 2
I've created my own community and I've been trying to sign in to owner account (hive-175254) and I'm failing. Any idea how to do that? I presume that I need to sign in to this account to give admin rights to other accounts?

Yours, Piotr
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@midlet · (edited)
> Communities would only make sense (from users point of view) if they would allow them to get more visibilty and exposure

They do. So you can think of it right now as you are a lone soldier fighting every other lone soldier for a spot on trending which more people will see. With Communities you now fight as a group to become a trending community. Or you can simply choose to post in a trending community for more visibility.

You can post in multiple communities by making multiple posts. Right now this is frowned upon and would clutter your blog, but in the future with the new interface you'll be able to choose which posts show up on your blog. So it wouldn't feel spammy to other users. I do hope that they add the functionality to resteem to another community though as it seems like that just makes more sense.

I think Communities costing 3 Steem does seem like a waste now, but I think it's future proofing. What about if Steem is worth $3 again? Then it costs $9 USD to make a community? That's a lot for a lot of the world already. If it were 10 or 100 Steem, sure, that's almost nothing right now, but this is crypto, and all this can change in the blink of an eye.

Not sure about your issue, I've been given the option to change roles in my community as the admin, no need to sign is as owner.

Communities cannot fade into irrelevance like tribes because they will fundamentally change the way Steem frontends work, it will change condenser which is what most of the other frontends are based on. Even if people don't go around making their own communities, they will still be using other peoples.

edit- Oh and one thing I forgot to address, it doesn't matter if we have a million empty communities as a community is basically just an account. We have tens of thousands of empty accounts already. They just won't be seen if they're not active.
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@crypto.piotr · 
Thanks for your prompt reply @midlet

> so you can think of it right now as you are a lone soldier fighting 

I like that comparison :)

> You can post in multiple communities by making multiple posts. 

So if I would like same publication to be in 3 different communities, then ... what would I really have to do? 

ps.
May I ask you for little favour? I'm not sure if I did ask you about it already or not (hope I'm not repeating myself). 

Could you please check out also my recent post if you have few min and share your thoughts on questions related to concept of "introducing steem blockchain to businesses":
https://steemit.com/steemleo/@crypto.piotr/my-very-first-trip-to-switzerland-one-of-the-most-crypto-and-blockchain-friendly-place-on-the-planet-earth

Your feedback is always appreciated ;) And I will upvote most valuable comment with 100-200k SP coming from project.hope account.
Yours, Piotr
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@gniksivart · 
Yeah it will be interesting to see who and what communities take advantage of this feature the best. It would be nice to see the creators of dmania and zapple come back because I think they had really good ideas, just didn't have the tools in place to make the dream they had a reality.
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