I'm Curious About The StemGeeks Website On The Hive Blockchain
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across a writing platform named StemGeeks that had three of my articles published. I figured that it had to be a part of the Hive blockchain, because it allowed me to log into it, using my Hive keychain. I was bewildered as for why there was very little or no word about it on the PEAKD writing platform or on the regular Hive blockchain websites of Hive.blog, Ecency, and 3Speak.
Nevertheless, I decided to explore the StemGeeks website, and I eventually logged into my StemGeeks channel. I'm wondering if this same website is restrictive about what they allow on it if they only published three of my articles from my PEAKD channel onto my StemGeeks channel. If anyone can answer that same question of mine below in the comments section, I'd greatly appreciate it.
What I do find very interesting is that it appears that you can earn a form of cryptocurrency known as STEM on the StemGeeks writing platform, which is separate from the regular Hive and its likes that you earn on the other Hive blockchain writing platforms. That means extra money, and I can wrap my head around that with gratitude. If that is the case, which it most likely is, then I definitely want the opportunity to copy all of my other articles from my PEAKD channel to my StemGeeks channel.
I have come across a few articles here on the PEAKD writing platform that describe the StemGeeks writing platform. However, none of them really go into that great of details about it. It certainly appears that there are greater opportunities to earn money on the StemGeeks writing platform than I ever came across on the Blurt writing platform. Of course, the Blurt writing platform is an entirely different animal all of its own.
If anyone reading my article here can elaborate on all of the questions I have presented herein about the StemGeeks writing platform and post your information in the comments section below, I'd be most grateful. I'd like to be educated on how this same writing platform works.
The StemGeeks writing platform doesn't seem to be that much different from the PEAKD writing platform, but I really need to know if there are rules on that same writing platform that are different from what they are on other writing platforms of the Hive blockchain. Any information you can provide to me about it would help.
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When you publish to stemgeeks you are publishing to the hive blockchain.
Reposting old articles will be seen as trying to double dip the pool.
I don't use it, but I bet that posting there also shows up on your blog.
It came along while folks still had hopes for blogging on hive.
Like most h-e 2nd layer ui's, it is mostly abandonware at this point.
That is likely to reverse were the price of hive to go back up.
Stem is a hive-engine second layer token and does add additional value to your post rewards.
Afaik, you get stem only through using their interface to post.
It works like most of the other h-e tokens and can be bought/sold through tribaldex.com.
You can see what h-e tokens you have in the peakd wallet by clicking the h-e option from the list on the left.
The concern I have is that only three of all of my 300-plus articles on my PEAKD channel appear on my StemGeek channel. If StemGeek hasn't duplicated the other articles outside those same three articles on my StemGeek channel, would I be able to do so myself? Or is it that whoever monitors that writing platform is very selective about what gets allowed on it?
It most likely has to do with your hashtags, certain hashtags get you published in certain h-e token communities.
Are those posts also in your blog feed?
The ui simply pulls from the blockchain and shows posts according to their rules.
IF your posts falls within those rules, it gets printed to their feed.
Like I said, it is mostly abandonware at this point, but at some point it could be used as a filter for their type of content.
Look at the hashtags and see if you can spot a pattern.
I do spot a pattern. StemGeeks has only published human-interest articles of mine from my PEAKD channel, whereas they have published none of my controversial articles from my PEAKD channel. There is a feature on my StemGeeks channel that allows me to post additional articles; but if it is not a good idea for me to post any article of mine there that I have already posted on my PEAKD channel, then I guess I should leave well enough alone.
Can you link me to the posts that they used?
Yes. The links to those three articles are:
https://stemgeeks.net/@epicenterdefacto/americans-need-to-fight-to-save-their-landlines
https://stemgeeks.net/@epicenterdefacto/psychics-are-not-demonic-and-the-bible-is-bogus
https://stemgeeks.net/@epicenterdefacto/shortcut-menus-can-really-be-annoying-and-harmful
Believe it or not, the article above also duplicated onto my StemGeeks channel on its own as well. Here is the link for that article:
https://stemgeeks.net/@epicenterdefacto/im-curious-about-the-stemgeeks-website-on-the-hive-blockchain
So, it appears that using the hashtags science and technology gets you posted on stemgeeks.
Which makes sense considering their topic, stem.
If you see value in acquiring more stem tokens, then you can post through their interface and earn more, iirc.
Your posts will still appear on your feed when posting through stemgeek's interface, so don't repeat them.
You will also earn stem tokens by powering them up and voting with them.
You can do this powering up in the peakd wallet.
So it is a restricted writing platform on the Hive blockchain that only allows for the publication of STEM-related articles.
Yes, it was once considered the elegant solution to separate everybody into their own niches, and this was one that persisted.
That it still pays tokens is a good sign.
Many of the others have stopped even that.
IF we ever get price recovery the masses will come back and it can be a thing again.
Until then it's just another desolate wasteland.
Victim of the management decisions that preceded it.
That's concerning, because that's the direction that HubPages eventually took insofar as many writers on that same writing platform began making the big bucks after the niche sites were created for it. Then the upper management of HubPages eventually eliminated the niche sites, and HubPages announced that it was going dark shortly thereafter.
If I had never published those three human-interest articles on my PEAKD channel, then I likely would have never discovered the existence of the StemGeeks writing platform. Not to say that the Hive blockchain will meet the same sad fate that HubPages did, because Hive fortunately doesn't use advertisers to pay their writers. However, it does raise a little bit of concern that niche sites were about to become a thing on the Hive blockchain as they did on HubPages, because they ultimately became a disaster on the HubPages writing platform.
Yeah, I told them that splitting us up wouldn't work out like they planned, but nobody listens to me.
They still try, plenty of 'communities' out there financed by 'whale largess' that all stakeholders contribute to.
You can't really compare hive to a traditional business.
Things are different here.
It looks like magi might actually deliver, at some point, and IF it does, then the appeal to do defi with hive will grow the chain's userbase like blogging hasn't been allowed to do.
The demand for liquid hbd should drive demand for hive, too.
I'll read that article you linked to the word "magi." That looks interesting.
Yes, if it fully comes to pass it will do wonders for the restivus.