Just a week into Steem (now Hive) Communities going live, and there are already tons and tons of them popping up! Now the challenge will be building the numbers in them, figuring out which ones to join, finding new ones as they come out. If you know me, then you know I love making lists, so here is my most recent one!

Because I want this post to get out there far, get lots of feedback, and become a very thorough list, I'm giving away all the rewards from it. I've used the wonderfully simple beneficiary function on SteemPeak to "burn" 50% (sending them to @null), with another 25% going to @SteemPeak, and 25% going to @steem.dao (read about the SteemDAO if you're not familiar.)

First, have you heard of SteemPeak?

Before we dive into the new Communities, some of the features, and the list of communities I want to share with you, I feel like it's important to check what front-end you are using to interact with the Steem blockchain. For me, personally, peakd.com is hands down the best around. The best UI/UX, most features, and currently the only place for visual cross-posting (which we will discuss later).

As usual, with the launch of Communities @peakd went the extra mile and released a bunch of other features, including visual cross-posting, which steemit.com doesn't offer.

Here's a Series on Peakd Settings:

• 1 - "General Settings"
• 2 - Content Related Settings
• 3 - "Interface Settings"

Here's the perpetually updated proposal to support SteemPeak on the Steem DAO [where every user can vote (weight based on their vests/SteemPower) on what projects are worth funding, and by how much.]

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Communities

So, Steem Communities just launched, after being anxiously awaited for the last couple years. Communities are built on Hivemind, which was launched in early 2019.

So, what is a Steem Community? As @Eco-Alex put it in his post In's and Outs Of Communities:

Think of communities as a special place to put something. Rather than sharing a post with the entire Steem ecosystem, when you post using a community page, or hive-tag your post does not appear on your blog feed. There is an option to share your community posts to your blog feed if you want, but you have to manually do that on each of your posts. If you do use other tags they WILL still appear in those feeds.

I am a fan of having this functionality, to be able to post something that's not a comment, but isn't a blog post on your front page or in your followers' feeds either. I think the cross-posting combined with extreme auto-voting might be an abuse issue somewhere, but the community will deal with it, like we do everything else. @Jarvie wrote a great piece about this: THE GRAND ADVENTURE... Choosing where you want to put your post.

In case you do actually use steemit.com, here's a guide to Communities over there, by @gadrian.

The list below isn't going to include all of the Steem Communities, by any means. It will, however, include all the ones I'm subscribed to, the communities for projects I support as well as many great Steem projects I personally don't use.

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The List

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A Living Document

I plan on continuing to update this list as things unfold, more communities come into being, and whatever other things change. If you've got a community to add, please do comment below and leave the link as well as a description.

Let's leverage this new piece of Steem to grow the community & bring more into the eco-system. Thanks for reading, and remember to vote for witnesses! (Or at least proxy to someone who does!)

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