An open letter encouraging the Iron Age Community to join and establish a presence on Inleo.io a decentralized social media platform built on the Hive Blockchain.
What is the Iron Age?
The Iron Age is a tightly coupled network on Twitter and YouTube creating, promoting and consuming commentary, comic books, pulp, manga films and games. Posts on Twitter are frequently tagged with #IronAge. Scroll down for a deeper dive into the Iron Age Community.
**Why is Twitter Underserving the Iron Age Community? **
Much of the Iron Age content is longer form. The content often gets buried by political content, or overshadowed by creators in adjacent spaces who use reactionary cultural commentary to channel users towards Youtube Channels for views and ad revenue. The pop culture war space on Youtube is saturated with content, and does not reward writers and creators who want to focus on their content. Twitter itself is densely populated with creators attempting to sell works or promote a crowdfunded project.
Every post on Twitter for low follower creators generates NO TANGIBLE OR MEASURABLE VALUE for IRON AGE creators or readers.
Inleo.io and Hive can create value for Iron Age Creators and Followers, for sharing the exact same content they give away on Twitter.
Hive is a decentralized community governed block chain that is several years old now with steady linear growth.
The Hiveblock chain is designed to be highly efficient at storing textual data. Your account keys are used to post the data to the chain and no one can censor or edit your post without your keys.
Simplfied overview follows: Periodically the Hive Blockchain generates Hive and Hive Backed Dollar tokens, when a user votes (likes) a post or a comment - a proportional percentage of those rewards are assigned to the author of the post of the comment. In addition the person upvoting the post also recieves rewards.
Consider - you post, share and retweet on Twitter - even the largest Iron Age Accounts get nothing. The commentors get nothing. On InLeo.io both the creator and consumer of the content recieve tangible value for consuming and interacting with posts.
The Hive Blockchain is incredibly easy to interact with, at the surface level using InLeo.Io a user doesn't even have to substantially think about the block chain at all. For those familiar with Crypto - Hive has incredibly fast transaction speeds, and best yet there are zero transaction fees on Hive.
The interface for content creation is incredibly easy to use.
Quick Start Guide for the Iron Age Community
Signing up and creating an account on Inleo.IO is fast and easy.
- Use this link - https://inleo.io/signup?referral=alohaed if you prefer not to use my signup link you can use - https://inleo.io/signup
- Make sure you select the USER name you really want.
- The process will generate 4 keys which will look like a random sequence of charaters, it is important to copy these to a text file and save these to a safe location.
- Your very first post on InLeo.io should be a well written introductory post talking about you, your creative work, and your interests. Introductory posts are typically well upvoted giving users an easier start on the platform.
- Tags are very important for finding content on InLeo.io and Hive - #IronAge should be broadly used.
- The normal convention on Hive and InLeo is to make attribution for all images particularly if it appears if it could be a copyrighted work, or owned by a third party.
If any Iron Agers need assistance they can post under this Thread Twitter, or direct message me.
A great source of technical support is also the Inleo Discord Server
https://discord.gg/nabN36SEPC
On Twitter I suggest following these accounts:
https://twitter.com/inleoio
https://twitter.com/EricFNa
A Deeper Dive into in the Iron Age Community
Some of the more well know accounts in the Iron Age Community are listed below, this post will expanded to highlight Ironagers as they learn about the InLeo/Hive Community
**IronAge.Media - **
With a webpage and a Youtube Channel this is one of the larger hubs - IronAge.Media also has a crowdfunded publication called Anvil.
Image source is the Anvil Indiegogo Crowdfund Campaign.
A Drink With Crazy
This accounts Youtube channel is one of the more frequent gathering spots for Iron Age creators and readers.
https://twitter.com/ADrinkWithCraz1
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBiGtAiwbhp0QpGL4bLZF7g
Watcher of The DAMNED (R.H.Snow)
Is a prolific writer of a Sci-Fi Western Series
https://twitter.com/WatcherDamned
Daniel P Riley.
Daniel is both author and a writing coach and a central node for the Iron Age community.
https://twitter.com/Misterdpriley
Katie and David Roome
Katie and Davide are a husband and wife team, authors, and owners of Periapis Press. The two run a youtube program where they highlight their own work and others.
https://twitter.com/RedHedgedragon
Bounding Into Comics
Bounding Into Comics is a Cultural Commentary Aggregator that substantially overlaps with promotion of crowdfunded comics and novels.
https://twitter.com/BoundingComics
The Lord Otter:
Author and central figure in Iron Age, also active on Youtube.
https://twitter.com/The_Lord_Otter
Cider
Creator of the Collosals Graphic Novel, and active youtube cohost and producer.
https://twitter.com/CiderHype
Additional references will be added in revisions to this post.