By now I guess many steemians got their feet wet in the communities, at least a bit.
And maybe they are aware about this distinction:
- post to blog
- post in a community
which are two different things.
And about the quick trick to make your community post also show up on your blog, by resteeming it.
And now comes the question: If you post in a community, why would you want the post showing on your blog as well?
In my mind there are more reasons to do it now and fewer and fewer reasons to do it at a later time when communities become a common thing on Steem.
First of all, why wouldn't you share all your community posts with all your followers?
The reasoning is quite simple. On your account you have a certain audience which can be quite different (or diverse) than the one from a certain community you would be posting in, and may not be interested in the topic.
And the second question: why would you share your community posts on your blog, especially now?
Here are a few reasons:
- not everyone is fully aware how to navigate the new interfaces yet and reach your content - maybe they stumble upon your content easier from 'Blog' than from 'Posts' / 'All Posts'
- apart from steemit.com and steempeak.com, all other interfaces do not support Hive communities, so on those interfaces all content still goes on your blog (including your community posts); they will also have a hard time identifying the community you post into, unless you tell them - I'm publishing this post in "The City of Neoxian" community. But all they see if you don't mention it, will be the undecipherable by a human hive tag.
- the switch in mentality from the blog to the blog/communities dichotomy will take a while and people need time to adapt, including ourselves, the authors
Personally I will continue to resteem all my posts to my blog, at least for a while.
On the long term I will most likely be more selective, because interfaces help us discover content either way, and also not show it to everyone if it's for a niche. But let's get there first.
