First, I am not talkig about you, I am just ranting because I PERSONALLY think it is wrong to use Steem to monetize third party social network, this is like leveraging the freedom and power of the blockchain to make money by not using this blockchain and the main product.\nHonestly, I don't think such things are healthy for the Steem long term... If this becomes the norm "just use other social media and auto share to Steem", this is just my opinion, though because I think this way you are leveraging the followers and users from Steem to profit and get audience in third party social network. Please, correct if my vision about it is wrong, but it feels like it is like using the Steem just as a tool not as a end product.\nI would totally support the opposite, a tool to automatically share the posts from Steem to third party centralized social media, this would be using the blockchain as the end product and the centralized networks as a tool to driving more traffic to Steem.\nJust my 2cents though since I am here for the freedom and knowledge... As I have said in my last post, many people are here just for the money and this is sad...
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Hi ! (I'm the developer of @share2steem)
Thanks for your input.
The goal here is to bring people to Steem from outside. Someone who does the cross-posting will have to come and get their rewards, so they will be confronted to Steem, so one day or another, they will ask themselves : "How come I'm getting money from this ? When I do it for free on Instagram or Twitter ?" and that's where the trap closes on them. We also hope that some of the users will begin to post Steem-exclusive content and change their habits little by little. For now, the problem is that Steem doesn't attract a lot of people, we think we need to broaden the spectrum. It's like everything, a lot of people will use it once and stop, some will use it and be deceived by the rewards and stop, some will become fluent users and get interested by Steem and become active.
Our strength is the numbers. Steem doesn't have the power to attract a lot of users, with traditional social networks, we're talking billions of potential users.
We're also planning on educating users about Steem when we will begin to create accounts to onboard users directly from external social networks.
So it brings traffic and attention to Steem, and if a portion of them gets interested in it, maybe buy some STEEM to power up
And for the 2-way cross-posting, it's also a medium term goal, to have a complete service. And that way Steem promotiom could accelerate. We could also offer incentives to users who promote Steem externally or things like that. With enough users, we could have the power to put a tag on Trending on Twitter or Instagram, imagine the impact...