You know it: Trending sucks. At least it did when I last time checked – which has been a while, but I'm pretty sure it's still _raped by bidbots_, or more accurately, _by the humans who use them_. People say that it's impossible to gain traction without bidbots. Now, this might sound legit, because "that's the only way to get views and gain traction." Except that that claim is a big handful of bullshit which would see much better use as a fertilizer for your soon-to-be bread. You can and probably will gain views if you engage with people, it takes time, sure, but ain't there such a thing as "buy-instant relationships". Not yet at least (and even if there were, the quality and authenticity of those I would argue to be questionable). Now, the reason why bidbots gain views, is because of the way how Steemit.com (and some other UIs) is designed to deliver the content: the value of the post has a big impact. But like we know, when there's bidbots around, the idea of money=quality, is simply not true. It wasn't true to begin with, because relationships greatly affect the people you vote, but when you can "pay to quality", it is especially broken. But the great thing is that Steem being decentralized, anyone can make a new interface that has its unique way of filtering content. @steeveapp has a platform – Steeve – that uses AI-algorithms to sort content, which is quite neat, and I could see something like AI becoming useful in the future when there's going to much more content, but for the time being it is still far from a ready UI. While we are waiting for the robots to take over though, we are relying on a manual curation guilds: @curie, @c-squared, @ocd and many others for their own niches. And what I found recently, was that **Steempeak** (the interface I use mostly) has an 'Explore' tab where you can find several curation accounts' history. ![steempeak exlpore.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/celestal/s6n8NDT9-steempeak20exlpore.png) _The cool thing is that you can also search topics (tags) and favorite them._ ![steempeak topics.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/celestal/fF0t7UIO-steempeak20topics.png) ![steempeak topics art.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/celestal/qjJAaHtK-steempeak20topics20art.png) ![steempeak favorits.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/celestal/ZC1Gchkg-steempeak20favorits.png) _The same you can also do with users. Though there's not many options to customize the favorites, and they can be viewed only one at a time._ People have been crying about the poor exploration possibilities of Steemit. Well, quit using it; I think Steempeak has the most advanced features for finding (quality) content. Not only that, you can schedule posts, manage drafts (so far not a single draft has gone lost) and you can create templates (I always use this because of my signature, really useful if you have stuff you paste at the end of every post). ![steempeak tools.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/celestal/tiqghHy8-steempeak20tools.png) Then you have bunch of tools where you can see voting and earning stats and even vote witnesses directly from the interface. The only thing I couldn't find from the UI was the market (the 'Market' only displays price histories). But if they manage to integrate market, there's literally no reason for me to use Steemit.com at all. Btw, Keychain is supported if you're afraid to use Steemconnect. It caused some errors in the beginning but is now working fine. I think Steempeak is way too good to be down at 40 in the State of the DApps. <img src="https://steemitimages.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc15VtwBcpcNRduYYp5vfHxZnGaBMuEFRUGXECvTXGCTBUxjGmAuhr6nRoUUREtCGY61Ygx2RHNEhWHUts6ZJMvYNPVkZAhYc8ubW1dW92QuuMCi5hp?format=match&mode=fit">
post_id | 71,563,321 |
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author | celestal |
permlink | who-needs-trending-anyway |
category | steempeak |
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created | 2019-03-16 16:59:45 |
last_update | 2019-03-17 08:45:33 |
depth | 0 |
children | 11 |
net_rshares | 129,514,475,338,599 |
last_payout | 2019-03-23 16:59:45 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 66.912 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 21.755 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 3,820 |
author_reputation | 159,302,364,576,442 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
borran | 0 | 52,042,048,531 | 25% | ||
cornerstone | 0 | 688,059,519,035 | 50% | ||
abh12345 | 0 | 46,690,905,323 | 8% | ||
dylanhobalart | 0 | 4,006,090,592 | 15% | ||
mangos | 0 | 535,450,959,576 | 15% | ||
ripperone | 0 | 751,394,683,532 | 15% | ||
markkujantunen | 0 | 33,796,737,851 | 29% | ||
connecteconomy | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
morph | 0 | 670,394,734 | 8% | ||
cabbagepatch | 0 | 16,625,276,399 | 33% | ||
trumpikas | 0 | 2,498,430,206 | 100% | ||
xyzashu | 0 | 12,694,945,678 | 100% | ||
tezmel | 0 | 23,460,347,421 | 100% | ||
m31 | 0 | 286,707,119,967 | 50% | ||
macchiata | 0 | 2,347,189,417 | 100% | ||
felander | 0 | 126,858,145,734 | 100% | ||
kimzwarch | 0 | 23,118,861,404 | 20% | ||
raj808 | 0 | 36,256,948,320 | 15% | ||
celestal | 0 | 74,081,623,078 | 100% | ||
steemmatt | 0 | 57,145,299,708 | 50% | ||
erodedthoughts | 0 | 37,514,507,589 | 50% | ||
paradigmprospect | 0 | 21,294,218,015 | 100% | ||
yakubenko | 0 | 24,910,784,340 | 100% | ||
stuffbyspencer | 0 | 2,921,395,804 | 100% | ||
heidimarie | 0 | 42,598,579,256 | 40% | ||
piotrgrafik | 0 | 46,587,717,854 | 100% | ||
joshuaetim | 0 | 16,897,087,711 | 100% | ||
fieryfootprints | 0 | 3,820,893,685 | 100% | ||
escapist | 0 | 286,357,914 | 100% | ||
asgarth | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
suomibotti | 0 | 29,881,375,260 | 75% | ||
jagoe | 0 | 4,491,313,333 | 12% | ||
norwegianbikeman | 0 | 2,119,725,500 | 100% | ||
hackerzizon | 0 | 1,364,875,733 | 15% | ||
insaneworks | 0 | 24,713,549,675 | 50% | ||
steempeak | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
blewitt | 0 | 39,994,312,211 | 9% | ||
zze | 0 | 496,363,260 | 100% | ||
ocdb | 0 | 117,025,687,963,410 | 74.72% | ||
gpcx86 | 0 | 491,732,990 | 12% | ||
steemcur | 0 | 1,870,859,735 | 100% | ||
wirsing | 0 | 304,528,212 | 100% | ||
steem-ua | 0 | 200,838,329,579 | 1.97% | ||
eccles | 0 | 3,273,425,297 | 100% | ||
steemitbuzz | 0 | 0 | 1% | ||
optimizer | 0 | 709,167,678 | 0.64% | ||
qwopa.naoxote | 0 | 505,859,499 | 100% | ||
teqila777 | 0 | 506,037,806 | 100% | ||
lico.ryka | 0 | 505,872,926 | 100% | ||
acaspresranna | 0 | 505,045,160 | 100% | ||
xolod.moroz | 0 | 506,463,521 | 100% | ||
kardakova | 0 | 504,998,227 | 100% | ||
korob12 | 0 | 505,135,142 | 100% | ||
stil1il4up | 0 | 505,777,328 | 100% | ||
dorrotiz | 0 | 506,384,051 | 100% | ||
bornnonben | 0 | 505,355,003 | 100% | ||
pomarinerose | 0 | 504,126,186 | 100% | ||
sutecheasles | 0 | 506,266,950 | 100% | ||
mustangpaddling | 0 | 505,731,057 | 100% | ||
sitemapmap | 0 | 504,912,724 | 100% | ||
pectoralwake | 0 | 503,649,035 | 100% | ||
moistcurse | 0 | 507,543,824 | 100% | ||
germharmony | 0 | 506,754,784 | 100% | ||
smellbaryon | 0 | 505,422,752 | 100% | ||
shabbyreed | 0 | 504,814,071 | 100% | ||
otherwiseestates | 0 | 506,319,554 | 100% | ||
leerydesk | 0 | 504,132,028 | 100% | ||
belliedas | 0 | 505,704,131 | 100% | ||
bluerobo | 0 | 12,475,793,596 | 100% | ||
bluesniper | 0 | 137,845,789 | 0.06% | ||
pgshow | 0 | 1,008,827,601 | 1.3% | ||
cristhianarturo | 0 | 4,705,759 | 100% | ||
dapplovers | 0 | 9,177,520,868,858 | 50% | ||
aceylelto | 0 | 475,572,338 | 100% | ||
ungero | 0 | 475,552,738 | 100% | ||
narse | 0 | 475,488,120 | 100% | ||
cangu2 | 0 | 475,527,854 | 100% | ||
peert | 0 | 475,417,854 | 100% | ||
asaleasti | 0 | 475,457,042 | 100% | ||
lasorte | 0 | 475,459,110 | 100% | ||
embencol | 0 | 475,464,114 | 100% | ||
yiomar | 0 | 475,478,206 | 100% | ||
eheldu | 0 | 475,480,911 | 100% | ||
erackoo | 0 | 475,502,403 | 100% |
I agree. More people should use it. It also like the way it displays images.
post_id | 71,571,893 |
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author | markkujantunen |
permlink | re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190316t211916743z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"tags":["steempeak"],"app":"steemit\/0.1"} |
created | 2019-03-16 21:19:18 |
last_update | 2019-03-16 21:19:18 |
depth | 1 |
children | 1 |
net_rshares | 6,228,021,493 |
last_payout | 2019-03-23 21:19:18 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 76 |
author_reputation | 340,582,416,232,499 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
steempeak | 0 | 6,228,021,493 | 36% |
Yeah, they show the whole pictures on the grid style.
post_id | 71,573,174 |
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author | celestal |
permlink | re-markkujantunen-re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190316t215752801z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"tags":["steempeak"],"community":"steempeak","app":"steempeak\/1.8.4b"} |
created | 2019-03-16 21:57:57 |
last_update | 2019-03-16 21:57:57 |
depth | 2 |
children | 0 |
net_rshares | 0 |
last_payout | 2019-03-23 21:57:57 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 53 |
author_reputation | 159,302,364,576,442 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
Legitimately, by far the best frontend I've ever used on the web. Steempeak is amazing! Posted using [Partiko Android](https://partiko.app/referral/stuffbyspencer)
post_id | 71,658,041 |
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author | stuffbyspencer |
permlink | stuffbyspencer-re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190318t150034507z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"app":"partiko","client":"android"} |
created | 2019-03-18 15:00:39 |
last_update | 2019-03-18 15:00:39 |
depth | 1 |
children | 2 |
net_rshares | 75,507,844,453 |
last_payout | 2019-03-25 15:00:39 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.038 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.012 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 164 |
author_reputation | 12,239,897,411,079 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
celestal | 0 | 39,570,818,828 | 50% | ||
steempeak | 0 | 35,937,025,625 | 50% |
Yup yup, it's better than Steemit, so why isn't it at the top on State of the Dapps? :D Posted using [Partiko Android](https://partiko.app/referral/celestal)
post_id | 71,858,178 |
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author | celestal |
permlink | celestal-re-stuffbyspencer-stuffbyspencer-re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190322t153124429z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"app":"partiko","client":"android"} |
created | 2019-03-22 15:31:24 |
last_update | 2019-03-22 15:31:24 |
depth | 2 |
children | 1 |
net_rshares | 34,056,735,210 |
last_payout | 2019-03-29 15:31:24 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.016 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.003 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 158 |
author_reputation | 159,302,364,576,442 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
stuffbyspencer | 0 | 3,179,762,513 | 100% | ||
milky-concrete | 0 | 30,876,972,697 | 55.26% |
that's a good question lol, I guess a fair amount of people are just used to Steemit [ *and its inferior ways ;-)* ] Posted using [Partiko Android](https://partiko.app/referral/stuffbyspencer)
post_id | 71,858,280 |
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author | stuffbyspencer |
permlink | stuffbyspencer-re-celestal-celestal-re-stuffbyspencer-stuffbyspencer-re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190322t153354297z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"app":"partiko","client":"android"} |
created | 2019-03-22 15:33:54 |
last_update | 2019-03-22 15:33:54 |
depth | 3 |
children | 0 |
net_rshares | 0 |
last_payout | 2019-03-29 15:33:54 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 193 |
author_reputation | 12,239,897,411,079 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
You got a 74.72% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @celestal! :) @ocdb is a non-profit bidbot for whitelisted Steemians, current max bid is 60 SBD and the equivalent amount in STEEM. Check our website https://thegoodwhales.io/ for the whitelist, queue and delegation info. Join our [Discord channel for more information.](https://discord.gg/k2Hu77b) If you like what @ocd does, consider voting for [ocd-witness through SteemConnect](steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=ocd-witness&approve=1) or on the [Steemit Witnesses page.](https://steemit.com/~witnesses) :)
post_id | 71,719,919 |
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author | ocdb |
permlink | re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190319t203935977z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"app":"postpromoter\/1.9.3"} |
created | 2019-03-19 20:39:36 |
last_update | 2019-03-19 20:39:36 |
depth | 1 |
children | 0 |
net_rshares | 0 |
last_payout | 2019-03-26 20:39:36 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 576 |
author_reputation | 3,405,824,162,324 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
#### Hi @celestal! Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation! Your **UA** account score is currently 4.394 which ranks you at **#2351** across all Steem accounts. Your rank has improved 10 places in the last three days (old rank 2361). In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 226 contributions, your post is ranked at **#138**. ##### Evaluation of your UA score: * Some people are already following you, keep going! * The readers like your work! * Try to improve on your user engagement! The more interesting interaction in the comments of your post, the better! **Feel free to join our [@steem-ua Discord server](https://discord.gg/KpBNYGz)**
post_id | 71,837,785 |
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author | steem-ua |
permlink | re-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190322t053018z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"app":"beem\/0.20.18"} |
created | 2019-03-22 05:30:18 |
last_update | 2019-03-22 05:30:18 |
depth | 1 |
children | 0 |
net_rshares | 0 |
last_payout | 2019-03-29 05:30:18 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 722 |
author_reputation | 23,203,609,903,979 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
Thanks for this - I might finally check out Steempeak! It looks good and the features sound convincing!
post_id | 71,924,317 |
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author | connecteconomy |
permlink | re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190323t181159275z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"tags":["steempeak"],"app":"steemit\/0.1"} |
created | 2019-03-23 18:12:00 |
last_update | 2019-03-23 18:12:00 |
depth | 1 |
children | 1 |
net_rshares | 48,261,898,287 |
last_payout | 2019-03-30 18:12:00 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.022 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.005 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 103 |
author_reputation | 162,596,469,388,148 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
celestal | 0 | 19,306,941,640 | 25% | ||
steempeak | 0 | 28,954,956,647 | 41% |
Great! They actually just rolled [another update](https://steempeak.com/steempeak/@steempeak/speempeak-release-update-v1-9-0) – now you can even filter blogs by tags! This is really cool, because the blog pages have forever stayed static without any ability to sort or arrange them, but now readers can filter them by themselves and search specific content. They just keep exceeding!
post_id | 71,924,644 |
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author | celestal |
permlink | re-connecteconomy-re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190323t182247525z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"tags":["steempeak"],"app":"steempeak\/1.9.2"} |
created | 2019-03-23 18:23:00 |
last_update | 2019-03-23 18:23:00 |
depth | 2 |
children | 0 |
net_rshares | 41,855,126,710 |
last_payout | 2019-03-30 18:23:00 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.020 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 383 |
author_reputation | 159,302,364,576,442 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
connecteconomy | 0 | 5,555,615,684 | 5% | ||
steempeak | 0 | 36,299,511,026 | 50% |
Not sure how i missed this until now... but I love the review!
post_id | 71,924,743 |
---|---|
author | jarvie |
permlink | re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190323t182546469z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"tags":["steempeak"],"app":"steempeak\/1.9.2"} |
created | 2019-03-23 18:25:48 |
last_update | 2019-03-23 18:25:48 |
depth | 1 |
children | 1 |
net_rshares | 42,408,990,498 |
last_payout | 2019-03-30 18:25:48 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.020 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.006 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 62 |
author_reputation | 119,307,203,632,653 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |
author_curate_reward | "" |
voter | weight | wgt% | rshares | pct | time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
celestal | 0 | 42,408,990,498 | 55% |
No biggie, I'm happy you like it! You're doing impressive things with Steempeak, the latest update, too – even more great features like the possibility to filter blogs by tags!
post_id | 71,925,163 |
---|---|
author | celestal |
permlink | re-jarvie-re-celestal-who-needs-trending-anyway-20190323t184035013z |
category | steempeak |
json_metadata | {"tags":["steempeak"],"app":"steempeak\/1.9.2"} |
created | 2019-03-23 18:40:48 |
last_update | 2019-03-23 18:40:48 |
depth | 2 |
children | 0 |
net_rshares | 81,957,142,145 |
last_payout | 2019-03-30 18:40:48 |
cashout_time | 1969-12-31 23:59:59 |
total_payout_value | 0.038 SBD |
curator_payout_value | 0.013 SBD |
pending_payout_value | 0.000 SBD |
promoted | 0.000 SBD |
body_length | 176 |
author_reputation | 159,302,364,576,442 |
root_title | "Who needs Trending anyway?" |
beneficiaries | [] |
max_accepted_payout | 1,000,000.000 SBD |
percent_steem_dollars | 10,000 |