I’m the first one to admit I’m not a great networker. That even though my fourth or fifth post on Steem was about the need to network and build a tribe.

Something I long didn’t need to do anymore until I joined here. Yet, I can not complain about returns, even if my comments sections aren’t the most active.

At the same time ever since April I have been a daily active mod for Steemhunt and also busy in its discord.

I do get “socializing fatigue” which until HF20, and possibly also the race to zero, had fully kicked in kept me away from my feed.

Guilty as charged.

I loathe noise if there’s only little value.

Amidst all drama about what was all wrong on the platform - the typical echo chambers of doom - it was easy to lose interest and focus on only very, very few. Combined with hunting products to Steemhunt, I did lose some followers and I don’t blame them - except maybe for not understanding how things would evolve.

But now, it feels like a throw back to good older days. My feed is rather void of $hitposts, people seem to read and comment again, and the value to noise ratio seems to have improved.

I wonder if when the prizes go up it will be a repeat. History tells us we aren’t necessarily the smartest species so I will brace myself for al. to rinse and repeat come the day...

Until then... I’m rather enjoying all I see again and it definitely helps quiet INTJ me. Even to focus on writing long form again, as I have recently.

That also because it seems that people finally are starting to understand decentralization. And those are topics I love.

The seemingly returned focus is a good and healthy thing. And knowing one is actually occasionally read is a great drive to socialize again too.

_{Posted using Steeve, an AI-powered Steem interface}