I often write about the amazing potential of the various dapps on the Steem blockchain and how they are going to change the landscape of Steem. However, I have started to notice more and more posts from the various dapps taking over my Steemit feed, and moving Steemit away from a purely blogging platform. I think these dapps are wonderful, but that there are alternatives that will help them and Steemit flourish.

Dapps such as @actifit, @steemhunt, @dlike and others will generally post any activity from their dapp directly to your Steemit profile page. Some people (like myself), like to experiment and spread their time on the Steem blockchain across many different dapps. This can mean my followers are getting many posts a day from different projects. This might not only clog up users feeds, but also may not even be helping the dapps themselves.

Incentivising native engagement

Take @steemhunt for example. Steemhunt have a great website which is fully functional and encourages users to engage on their native platform, offering extra incentives such as upvotes, and extra tokens as incentives for posting and engaging through Steemhunt.com. Additionally, the metric they use to rank the daily hunts uses a users 'hunt score', which is a metric based on the users activity specifically on the Steemhunt platform.

@musing is a question and answer platform on the Steem blockchain, and have done things a little bit differently - rather than automatically posting to a users Steemit profile, Musing offers users the option of whether they would like to or not. I like this, as users can be more selective, and decide what posts they think would add value to their followers on their Steemit blog. I think that other dapps could adapt a similar feature, allowing a more 'filtered', and specific posting from dapps.

One of the biggest things that these dapps need to focus on is becoming their own community, and driving users specifically to their own website. Yes they are part of the overall Steem blockchain, but they are also their own entities, which will have users who are after their specific niche.

As I mentioned, @steemhunt is doing this by offering incentives to users who navigate and interact on their platform. I think other dapps can also do something similar, and this will not only increase their active user base, but also make Steemit become a bit more 'simple' and back to its roots of being specifically a blogging platform.

What do you think - do you like seeing all of the updates from dapps on Steemit, or would you prefer Steemit was specifically for blogging?