The developers of Steemigram gave the app a complete makeover. With the new look comes a new name and loads of new features. Share2Steem is growing up!

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DISCLAIMER: The links to Share2Steem are my referral links.

Steemigram Gets A Makeover

2 days ago, I reported about a brand new app that made it possible to share your Instagram posts to the Steem blockchain. As you may have read in my article 'Steemigram - Monetize Your Instagram Account', I was excited by the idea, but I had quite a lot of critique.

In my opinion, the landing page could use a little TLC. I think it looks a little unprofessional. The layout could use some improvements, and the spelling errors should be corrected. A little makeover would definitely be necessary if they want to go mainstream.

Once my article had been published, it didn't take very long before both developers left a comment. @sebbbl and @algo.coder - both very friendly guys, btw - explained to me that the app was still in beta and that an update would be released soon. I couldn't have imagined that this promised update would be released only 2 days later and that the ugly duckling would have grown up to be a swan. share2steem divider

Share2Steem

Together with the makeover, the app got rebranded and is now called Share2Steem. The name 'Steemigram' obviously referred to the connection between SteemIt and Instagram, but since the update came with brand new features, that name didn't cover the load anymore. Next to cross-posting from your Instagram account, the current version of Share2Steem also allows a user to share his Twitter tweets on the Steem blockchain. In the near future, YouTube will be added to that list.

See the original post on SteemIt and on Twitter.

Above, you can see an example of a shared tweet. I did make a couple of small changes from within the SteemIt interface:

The image I used in the tweet did not appear on SteemIt. I added it manually.

The two links were posted right next to each other. I split them up and added the 'identification' note, so people would know where these links would redirect to. (FYI, the link to the original post on Twitter was added by the app on autopilot.)

I also had to edit the tags that were posted underneath the SteemIt post. I used only three tags in my tweet, and those were the three tags that were posted to SteemIt. Also, they were posted in the same order as in the tweet. As a result, the main tag of my post is #instagram, since the first tag can't be edited. I removed the #youtube tag, so #share2steem could at least be the second one. I will have to try to remember to use #share2steem as the first tag in my tweet if I want it to be the main tag on SteemIt.

More New Features

Curation trail

A curation trail has been set up. This curation trail is run by the app itself, and not by Steemauto. Under the 'Settings' tab, you'll find a table which controls the curation trail settings. You have complete control over your VP limit and your voting percentage. Simply change the numbers in the table so they reflect your preferred settings. Important: you can also choose not to join the curation trail. You can opt out by clicking the 'Deactivate' button. Share2Steem curation traill

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The curation trail will vote on posts made through Share2Steem, rewarding people for using the app. But... curation trail votes are limited to people who do follow the curation trail themselves. If you decide to deactivate it, you won't be receiving votes from the trail. For now, the @share2steem account is still very small; with only 300SP, the initial votes will not be large. Hopefully, people will realize soon that this app could have a major impact on the number of users and the amount of transaction on the Steem blockchain, and will be prepared to delegate some of their Steem Power to the @share2steem account.

Referral Program

Whereas other apps charge a standard fee of 10%-15%, @algo.coder and @sebbbl are willing to share a part of their 10% creator fee with users who actively promote the app. If you get others to sign up through your affiliate link, you will receive 4% of the rewards of all Share2Steem posts made by your referrals. That 4% is taken out of the developer's creation fees, which leaves them with just 3% each.

Security

While the old website didn't have an SSL certificate, the new one is more secure. The developers have set up a secure dedicated server and a lot of other security features have been added. There is also an account verification system put into place: the app provides you with a code you need to add to your first submission from each social media account.

This will ensure two things :

a Share2Steem user will now have to prove he's the owner of the account he's linkin with Steemit.

a Twitter or Instagram account can not be used and resteemed twice, by different members.

The Sky Is The Limit

At the moment, users are able to share their Twitter and Instagram posts on the Steem Blockchain. Next up on the list is YouTube, but apparently, the sky is the limit. This is what you can read in the official launch post:

Last but not least, we plan to add other social media connections. What would you like to see next (except Youtube, which is coming) ?

Let's have a look at the numbers:

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We are sitting on a potential gold mine. Whereas all other apps work from the inside out and are tapping into the pool of SteemIt users, hoping to reach people on the outside eventually, @share2steem is working the other way around: they are plugging into existing sites, which already have billions of users. Even if only 0.01% of the users of these platforms are interested in monetizing their content, we will see an immense instream of people using the Steem blockchain. share2steem divider

Opinions

There's no doubt that there will be a lot of different opinions about this app and its functionalities. After all, it opens the door for even more short, and potentially low-quality content. The people who know me, and who I've been talking with these last couple of weeks, know that I'm not a fan of all these apps and the short, effortless content that ends up on SteemIt through all those different channels. I don't like having to go through loads of posts that contain no personal touch, and provide no food for thought, just to find one 'old-fashioned' real blog post. And there's a big chance that I would have been strongly opposed to @share2steem only 2 weeks ago. But it was @taskmaster4450 who opened my eyes. When I and a couple of other people expressed our concern about all these new, different sorts of posts, he promptly wrote this article:

Time To Make STEEM A Huge Success By Dropping The Focus On "Quality"

A bit further down, you'll find:

Can you imagine if the STEEM blockchain had 2M cat videos on it? Not if you are focused upon "quality". Most of those cat posts won't pass the "quality" test. Of course, I would love 2M cat videos on STEEM getting 25B views...the bandwidth for that alone would make STEEM worth $50.

Whether I like it or not, he's right. We will never reach mass adoption of the Steem blockchain with only long-form blog content. So I try to embrace the change that is taking place.

And I keep hoping that at some point in the near future, someone will create a separate dApp for blogging. A place where you can filter out all the other content, and just read and write blog posts. A site like SteemIt was during my first weeks or even months here. Maybe we can call it DBlog, or SteemBlog, or Stog, for all that matters. Just a place to go where you can scroll your feed and only see what you are interested in - blogs, in my case. Let SteemIt be the 'everything bucket', the platform where all content from all apps comes together, and where everyone can find the sort of content he is interested in. But I hope they don't leave bloggers out in the cold. If you want to see photos, you can simply go to Steepshot or Appics. Videos can be watched on Dtube, new tech can be found on Steemhunt and if you want to see memes all day, Dmania is the place to be. What all those sites have in common is the fact that you are not bothered by all the other sorts of content. While, if you want to read and write blogs, you have nowhere else to go than to one of the 'everything buckets'... So, if you're a coder, I hope you got my subtle hint :0) share2steem divider

Support

All this to explain why I do support Share2Steem, in spite of the fact that it will probably bring in a lot of content I don't really like to see. I believe the app has the potential to get many new users to sign up and be active on the Steem blockchain. But it needs support. As much as it can get. Because it has to be able to deliver what it promises. It needs to be able to monetize the content of those new users, or they won't stick around. Once the account has some SP, or a long, powerful curation trail, it needs to be promoted. But not on SteemIt. After all, we are already here. It needs to get the attention of the users of the sites they target: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube... That's where the focus of promotion should be, because that's where @taskmaster4450's 2 million cat videos are. That's where the future of Steem and this blockchain are. There, and on my little, separate blogging dApp. :0)

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