The Future for ~AGORA sub territories: an exploration of ideas
4098 sats \ 8 comments \ @AGORA 5 Feb meta
We have seen many conversations lately discussing about incertitude and doubts around territories and possible subs. We do have similar concerns, but we try to be ready for the storm to come, and we thought about many possible options:
1- Sub-territories by trade type, so we could replace the existing tags with subs like ~sell, ~buy, ~auction, ~swap ~hire, ~offer, ~free and why not ~reviews and at some stage ~crowdfunding and ~loans? who knows!
2- Sub-territories follow traditional classified categorization based on items type: the most common we have seen are ~Cars, ~Mining, ~Art, ~Music, ~Sport, ~Fashion etc...
3- Sub-territories follow geo localization paths, for example by state first (and city after whenever will be needed). For example, ~America, ~Canada etc and sub-subs like ~Texas for states and ~Austin ~Dallas etc... for cities.
We would like to know what you guys think? how you stackers see the ~AGORA functioning in the future? Which sub-territories you'd like to see? There's really a need for it to exists?
1- BY TRADE TYPE25.0%
2- BY TRADITIONAL CLASSIFIED TYPE0.0%
3- BY GEOLOCATION25.0%
4- NONE, NO EED FOR SUBS25.0%
5- NONE, READ MY COMMENT BELOW25.0%
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 5 Feb
I like the idea of having a place to look up something when I need something or get looked up by a post I had.
However, I think the SN community is still way too small. Has a relevant quantity of transactions been made here? Or is it like in the dozens?
Paying for even more territories or stretching this part of the community even thinner isn't improving it, is it?
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @AGORA OP 7 Feb
Thanks @tomlaies, much appreciate your feedback. It's true SN still a small community mostly related to Bitcoin. Anything else out of that doe look have any interest. It's a bit sad, because the tool could be valuable for any community looking to reward contributors. Hopefully its time will come soon, we are working hard for it.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @davidw 5 Feb freebie
Personally I must confess I muted ~AGORA because it’s not the type of content I am ready to see daily. Too easy to find irrelevant listings for my interests. And I don’t know how to solve that.
I don’t see it working in its current form, with what seems like a forced naming convention & templating. As SN scales I applaud your efforts but I struggle see how that is sustainable. Even with subterritories by region or product interest, I think you might see some similar challenges with only a subset of people engaging in your territory.
I have a view that listings or markets will have more success becoming as a ‘product’ SN post type, kind of like an ‘ad’ today. With courses being tagged as so within the ~devs territory or books for sale within the ~BooksAndArticles space. But perhaps I’m wrong and they’ll post to ~AGORA too.
There are definite merits in promoting more of a circular economy and it’s great to see some people generating some sales this way. It just may be more natural to do so on specific merchant platforms or with native SN functionality. I’m just not entirely sure how you solve that within your territory specifically.